predental
/P R IY0 D EH1 N T AH0 L/adjective
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Before, and in preparation for, dental education.
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In front of the teeth.
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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.
noun
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A person studying predentistry.
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