dentaladjective
uk/ˈden.təl/us/ˈden.t̬əl/B2 relating to the teeth:
dental decay/treatment
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- Have you made an appointment for your next dental check-up?
- Pregnant women don't have to pay dental charges under the current health system.
- She had to cancel her dental appointment.
- I had some very expensive dental treatment recently - but it'll save me problems in the future.
- There are only two dental practices in the town and another one is badly needed.
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Relating to particular parts of the body
- aural
- bronchial
- cardio
- cerebral
- cervical
- deltoid
- deltoids
- gastric
- genito-urinary
- lumbar
- mammary
- motor
- ocular
- optic
- orally
- ovarian
- pubis
- renal
- spinal
- venous
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dentalnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈden.təl/us/ˈden.t̬əl/specializeda speech sound in which your tongue touches your front teeth
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Linguistics: phonology & phonetics
- alveolar
- approximant
- articulatory
- assimilation
- clear l
- clipped
- consonant
- inflection
- nasalization
- onomatopoeia
- palatal
- palato-alveolar
- pharyngeal
- phoneme
- pronounce
- silent letter
- velum
- voiced
- vowel
- weak form
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