dentistry
/ˈdɛntɪstɹi/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.39 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The field of medicine concerned with the study, diagnosis, and treatment of conditions of the teeth and oral cavity.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "A corporation may not operate a dentistry office unless all of its stockholders are licensed to practice dentistry."
- "He was born near Middleton in 1853, graduated from Mount Allison, and took his dentistry degree at Philadelphia in 1878."
- "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"
- "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."
- "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."
Etymology
Etymology tree French dent Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istabor. French -iste French dentistebor. English dentist Middle English -re, -ri, -rie, -ry, -rye English -ry English dentistry From dentist + -ry.