单词 | orthodontic |
释义 | orthodonticadj. Dentistry. Of, relating to, or employed in orthodontics; serving to correct the position of the teeth. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > dentistry > [adjective] > branches of gingival1722 orthodontic1905 paedodontic1937 prosthodontic1942 orthognathic1973 1905 Brit. Dental Jrnl. 26 993 (heading) Where extraction is justifiable in connection with orthodontic operations. 1939 S. J. Bregstein Dentist & his Control of Pract. v. 155 Speech defects, psychiatric disturbances, personality changes, rhinological pathoses all are correctable through orthodontic measures. 1962 G. C. Blake & J. R. Trott Periodontol. xiv. 148 More permanent and more satisfactory immobilization can be obtained by fitting stainless steel orthodontic bands to each individual tooth. 1974 Trans. European Orthodontic Soc. 1973 403 A practitioner undertakes treatment in co-operation with the fully-trained orthodontic specialist. 1992 I. Banks Crow Road iii. 67 Last time I'd seen Verity Walker..she'd been a scrawny tyke with a mouth full of orthodontic brace-work. Derivatives orthoˈdontically adv. with regard to or by means of orthodontics. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > dentistry > [adverb] > orthodontically orthodontically1935 1935 G. M. Anderson Dewey's Pract. Orthodontia (ed. 5) xxii. 458 Cases which though completed orthodontically were never satisfactory esthetically. 1990 Skin Diver Mar. 40/2 The Impulse has a U.S. Divers patented Comfo-Bite, orthodontically designed mouthpiece, which means no more tense jaws. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1905 |
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