单词 | odontologist |
释义 | odontologistn. A specialist in odontology.In quot. 1788, apparently used ironically or humorously for: a tooth-drawer. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > study of body > study of other parts > [noun] > of teeth > person odontologist1788 1788 V. Knox Winter Evenings I. ii. 24 It would not be surprising to see a barber style himself..Odontologist. 1876 C. S. Tomes Man. Dental Anat. x. 291 Odontologists..do not yet know enough of the vast number of extinct Ungulates..to decide with certainty what the parent pattern was. 1897 Amer. Naturalist 31 994 We must revise the old systems of nomenclature..which..differ in every type of mammals and among odontologists of every land. 1929 Proc. Royal Soc. 1928–9 B. 104 p. xvi Charles Tomes's outstanding achievement in original research was his work as an odontologist. 1957 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 87 149 The aid of a number of specialists of various kinds—mineralogists, metallographers,..odontologists, surgeons—had to be invoked. 1990 D. Rutherford Game of Sudden Death (BNC) 271 The forensic odontologist told me there had been a deliberate attempt to make the teeth match. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1788 |
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