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/dˈɛntəl/ /dˈɛnəl/ Listen

adjective

dental adj.

Of or pertaining to the teeth or to dentistry; as, dental surgery.

(Phon.) Formed by the aid of the teeth; said of certain articulations and the letters representing them; as, d and t are dental letters.

Dental formula (Zool.), a brief notation used by zoologists to denote the number and kind of teeth of a mammal.

Dental surgeon, a dentist.

noun

Dental n.

An articulation or letter formed by the aid of the teeth.

(Zool.) A marine mollusk of the genus Dentalium, with a curved conical shell resembling a tooth. See Dentalium.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Dental" Quotes from Famous Books

... of their time there would stamp them for what they were—persons not yet to be included among the really fashionable group. The really fashionable maintained large homes which they occupied when they came to town to have dental work done or to launch a debutante daughter into society; the rest of the year they usually were elsewhere. It ...

— Sundry Accounts • Irvin S. Cobb

... variability, or maybe to that limbo of all a baby's troubles: weakness. After some months, it is noticed that the infant is failing to grow at the normal rate, either physically or mentally. Examination at this time reveals a curious thickening of the dental ridges. Then the tongue takes the centre of the scene, by becoming unusually thick and prominent, to the point of projecting beyond the mouth at all times, and interfering with breathing, when the infant is in a ...

— The Glands Regulating Personality • Louis Berman, M.D.

... or its natural expression in visible and audible motions), or of its causes (the circumstances and experiences which occasion it), the latter exercising a more potent influence than the former. The wooden leg of the beggar is more effective in exciting our pity than his anxious air; the sight of dental instruments is more eloquent than the plaints of the sufferer from toothache. In order to be able to imitate vividly the feelings of a person, we must know the causes of them.—The feeling of the spectator ...

— History Of Modern Philosophy - From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time • Richard Falckenberg

... in verve, but labial, rather than labio-dental; like the German w (not like the English w). Make English v as nearly as may be done without touch-* the lower lip to ...

— The Roman Pronunciation of Latin • Frances E. Lord

... done legally without a building permit. As time passes on, the inside of your once well-tilled and commodious head becomes but little more than a recent site. Your vaults have been blown and most of your contents abstracted by Amalgam Mike and Dental Slim, the Demon Yeggmen of the Human Face. You are merely the scattered clews left behind for the authorities to work on; you are the faint traces of the fiendish crime. You are ...

— Cobb's Anatomy • Irvin S. Cobb

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