Predental

Quick meaning: Predental is an adjective meaning Before, and in preparation for, dental education.

Meaning

Before, and in preparation for, dental education.

More Meanings

1. In front of the teeth.
2. A person studying predentistry.
3. an erroneous misconstruction arising from erroneous parsing of compounds such as pre–dental surgery anxiety as *predental surgery anxiety, originating from various kinds of error: copyeditorial errors, optical character recognition errors, and transcoding loss of hard hyphens misinterpreted as soft hyphens.

Example Sentences

Biology and chemistry are good subjects for premedical or predental coursework.

Word Forms

• pre-dental
• predentals

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include pre-dental, preeducation, premedical, predegree, predoctoral, predoc.

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