predental

• pre-dental

From pre- +‎ dental.

• Rhymes: -ɛntəl

predental (not comparable)

1. Before, and in preparation for, dental education.

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

2. In front of the teeth.
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.

predental (plural predentals)

1. A person studying predentistry.

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