predental

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Synonyms: prudential, pedestal, credential, prebendal, presential, regental, peridental, tridental, predeal, edental, pregenital

Antonyms: prudential, pedestal, credential, prebendal, presential, regental, peridental, tridental, predeal, edental, pregenital

Related words from Datamuse; suggestions, not definitions.

Adjective

1. Before, and in preparation for, dental education.
2. In front of the [[tooth|teeth]].
3. {{n-g|an erroneous [[misconstruction]] arising from erroneous parsing of compounds such as ''pre–{{w|dental surgery}} anxiety'' as ''*[[predental]] surgery anxiety'', originating from various kinds of error: copyeditorial errors, [[optical character recognition]] errors, and {{w|Character encoding#Character encoding translation|transcoding}} loss of {{w|hard hyphen}}s misinterpreted as {{w|soft hyphen}}s.}}

Noun

1. A person studying [[predentistry]].

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