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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A person studying predentistry.

Adjective

1. 1
   Before, and in preparation for, dental education. not-comparable

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

2. 2
   In front of the teeth. not-comparable
3. 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. not-comparable

Example

More examples

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

Etymology

From pre- + dental.

Related phrases

optical character recognition

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