"dentistry" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈdɛntɪstɹi/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-dentistry.wav [Southern-England] Forms: dentistries [plural]
Etymology: From dentist + -ry. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|dentist|ry}} dentist + -ry Head templates: {{en-noun|-|+}} dentistry (usually uncountable, plural dentistries)
  1. (uncountable) The field of medicine concerned with the study, diagnosis, and treatment of conditions of the teeth and oral cavity. Tags: uncountable, usually Categories (topical): Dentistry Translations (the field of medicine which studies and treats conditions of the teeth): သွားဘက်ဆိုင်ရာပညာ (swa:bhakhcuing-rapa.nya) (Burmese), tandheelkunde [feminine] (Dutch), hammaslääketiede [science, sciences] (Finnish), odontologie [feminine] (French), dentisterie [feminine] (French), Zahnmedizin [feminine] (German), Zahnheilkunde [feminine] (German), fogászat (Hungarian), odontologio (Ido), kedokteran gigi (Indonesian), ᑭᒍᑎᓕᕆᔨ (kicotiliriyi) (Inuktitut), pergigian (Malay), mātai niho (Maori), dentystyka [feminine] (Polish), stomatologia [feminine] (Polish), odontologia [feminine] (Portuguese), stomatologie [feminine] (Romanian), stomatológia (Slovak), odontología [feminine] (Spanish), odontologi [common-gender] (Swedish), dentisteriya (Tagalog), palangipinan (Tagalog)
    Sense id: en-dentistry-en-noun-z1vV7vXo Disambiguation of Dentistry: 37 24 32 8 Disambiguation of 'the field of medicine which studies and treats conditions of the teeth': 61 15 21 3
  2. (uncountable) Operations performed on teeth and adjoining areas such as drilling, filling cavities, and placing crowns and bridges. Tags: uncountable, usually Categories (topical): Dentistry Translations (operations performed on teeth): fogászat (Hungarian), fogkezelés (Hungarian), stomatologia [feminine] (Polish), tandvård [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-dentistry-en-noun-XVyQmpgr Disambiguation of Dentistry: 37 24 32 8 Disambiguation of 'operations performed on teeth': 10 47 29 13
  3. (countable) A dental surgery, an operation on the teeth. Tags: countable, usually Categories (topical): Dentistry Translations (translations to be checked): 牙科 (yákē) (Chinese Mandarin), 牙醫學 (Chinese Mandarin), 牙医学 (yáyīxué) (Chinese Mandarin), zubní lékařství [neuter] (Czech), tandheelkunde [feminine] (Dutch), hammashoito (english: practice) (Finnish), רפואת שיניים (refuat shinaim) [feminine] (Hebrew), odontoiatria [feminine] (Italian), 歯学 (shigaku) (alt: しがく) (Japanese), 歯科学 (shikagaku) (alt: しかがく) (Japanese), zobārstniecība [feminine] (Latvian), stomatoloģija [feminine] (Latvian), دندان پزشکی (dandân pezeški) (Persian), стоматоло́гия (stomatológija) [feminine] (Russian), одонтоло́гия (odontológija) [feminine] (Russian), лече́ние зубо́в (lečénije zubóv) [neuter] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-dentistry-en-noun-qB7nzRP5 Disambiguation of Dentistry: 37 24 32 8 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -ry Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 6 24 51 19 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 10 20 45 26 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ry: 10 24 46 21 Disambiguation of 'translations to be checked': 10 22 44 24
  4. (countable) A place where dental operations are performed. (Not as common as "dentist's office". Compare surgery.) Tags: countable, usually
    Sense id: en-dentistry-en-noun-ZKbXCEr1
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: animal dentistry, cosmetic dentistry

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "2004, Gene Witiak, True Confessions of a Veterinarian: An Unconditional Love Story, page 83",
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          "ref": "1867, Macmillan's Magazine, volume 16, page 464",
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          "ref": "1918, Edward Bernard Benjamin, The larger liberalism, page 172",
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          "ref": "2003, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia: First Review",
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        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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        {
          "ref": "1905, Australian journal of dentistry, volume 9, Australian Dental Association, page 184",
          "text": "Some provision should be made for the truly suffering poor, and also for our present students of dentistry to learn something about dental surgery before commencing a profession which has almost become a science.",
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          "ref": "1957, West's Wisconsin statutes annotated, West Publishing Company",
          "text": "A corporation may not operate a dentistry office unless all of its stockholders are licensed to practice dentistry.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1997, P.B. Waite, The Lives of Dalhousie University, volume II: 1925-198, page 24",
          "text": "He was born near Middleton in 1853, graduated from Mount Allison, and took his dentistry degree at Philadelphia in 1878.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2000, James Wynbrandt, The excruciating history of dentistry, page 81",
          "text": "Wig-workers were not the only tradesmen who practiced dentistry on the side, or \"assumed the role\" of dentist, as the arrival of a thespian dentist from London attests in this ad from Boston's Independent Chronicle and Universal Advertiser",
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    {
      "categories": [
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        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
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          "ref": "2009, Siobhain Ryan, “Poor access leads to DIY dentistry: dental checks”, in The Australian, sourced from Dow Jones Newswires",
          "text": "POOR Australians are resorting to do-it-yourself dentistry, including filing their own teeth and attempting their own extractions, because of lengthy queues for public dental services.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Gregory J. Tarantola, Clinical Cases in Restorative and Reconstructive Dentistry",
          "text": "This patient is an out-of-town physician who had to wait until retirement to complete his dentistry. He had holding pattern type dentistry done to get him by.",
          "type": "quotation"
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        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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          "ref": "1908, in the report of the Second International Congress on School Hygiene, volume 2, page 516",
          "text": "Dr. Landsberg, of Posen, states that when children's teeth are put in order by means of school dentistries, anaemia, one of the most frequent school diseases, will be greatly diminished."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Gene Witiak, True Confessions of a Veterinarian: An Unconditional Love Story, page 83",
          "text": "I speak now only of your pet's bad breath. Dentistries will specifically improve the oral health of the pet as well as its overall health in the long term.",
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        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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          "ref": "1867, Macmillan's Magazine, volume 16, page 464",
          "text": "They are very fond of sweet things; and the ladies especially crowd the “candystores,” which are not less numerous than the dentistries—with which business they are intimately connected.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1918, Edward Bernard Benjamin, The larger liberalism, page 172",
          "text": "The author could dilate at great length on the possibilities in plant groceries, restaurants, and dentistries.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia: First Review",
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      "code": "my",
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      "roman": "swa:bhakhcuing-rapa.nya",
      "sense": "the field of medicine which studies and treats conditions of the teeth",
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      "code": "nl",
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      "sense": "the field of medicine which studies and treats conditions of the teeth",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
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      "sense": "the field of medicine which studies and treats conditions of the teeth",
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        "sciences"
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    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "the field of medicine which studies and treats conditions of the teeth",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "odontologie"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "the field of medicine which studies and treats conditions of the teeth",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "dentisterie"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "the field of medicine which studies and treats conditions of the teeth",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Zahnmedizin"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "the field of medicine which studies and treats conditions of the teeth",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Zahnheilkunde"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "the field of medicine which studies and treats conditions of the teeth",
      "word": "fogászat"
    },
    {
      "code": "io",
      "lang": "Ido",
      "sense": "the field of medicine which studies and treats conditions of the teeth",
      "word": "odontologio"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "the field of medicine which studies and treats conditions of the teeth",
      "word": "kedokteran gigi"
    },
    {
      "code": "iu",
      "lang": "Inuktitut",
      "roman": "kicotiliriyi",
      "sense": "the field of medicine which studies and treats conditions of the teeth",
      "word": "ᑭᒍᑎᓕᕆᔨ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "the field of medicine which studies and treats conditions of the teeth",
      "word": "pergigian"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "the field of medicine which studies and treats conditions of the teeth",
      "word": "mātai niho"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "the field of medicine which studies and treats conditions of the teeth",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "dentystyka"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "the field of medicine which studies and treats conditions of the teeth",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "stomatologia"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "the field of medicine which studies and treats conditions of the teeth",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "odontologia"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "the field of medicine which studies and treats conditions of the teeth",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "stomatologie"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "the field of medicine which studies and treats conditions of the teeth",
      "word": "stomatológia"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "the field of medicine which studies and treats conditions of the teeth",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "odontología"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "the field of medicine which studies and treats conditions of the teeth",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "odontologi"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "the field of medicine which studies and treats conditions of the teeth",
      "word": "dentisteriya"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "the field of medicine which studies and treats conditions of the teeth",
      "word": "palangipinan"
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    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "operations performed on teeth",
      "word": "fogászat"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "operations performed on teeth",
      "word": "fogkezelés"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "operations performed on teeth",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "stomatologia"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "operations performed on teeth",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "tandvård"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "yákē",
      "sense": "translations to be checked",
      "word": "牙科"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "translations to be checked",
      "word": "牙醫學"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "yáyīxué",
      "sense": "translations to be checked",
      "word": "牙医学"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "translations to be checked",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "zubní lékařství"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "translations to be checked",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "tandheelkunde"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "english": "practice",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "translations to be checked",
      "word": "hammashoito"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "refuat shinaim",
      "sense": "translations to be checked",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "רפואת שיניים"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "translations to be checked",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "odontoiatria"
    },
    {
      "alt": "しがく",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "shigaku",
      "sense": "translations to be checked",
      "word": "歯学"
    },
    {
      "alt": "しかがく",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "shikagaku",
      "sense": "translations to be checked",
      "word": "歯科学"
    },
    {
      "code": "lv",
      "lang": "Latvian",
      "sense": "translations to be checked",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "zobārstniecība"
    },
    {
      "code": "lv",
      "lang": "Latvian",
      "sense": "translations to be checked",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "stomatoloģija"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "dandân pezeški",
      "sense": "translations to be checked",
      "word": "دندان پزشکی"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "stomatológija",
      "sense": "translations to be checked",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "стоматоло́гия"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "odontológija",
      "sense": "translations to be checked",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "одонтоло́гия"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "lečénije zubóv",
      "sense": "translations to be checked",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "лече́ние зубо́в"
    }
  ],
  "word": "dentistry"
}

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