predental

Meanings

Adjective

• Before, and in preparation for, dental education.
• In front of the teeth.
• misconstruction arising from erroneous parsing of compounds such as pre–dental surgery anxiety as *predental surgery anxiety, originating from various kinds of error: copyeditorial errors, optical character recognition errors, and transcoding loss of hard hyphens misinterpreted as soft hyphens.

Noun

• A person studying predentistry.

Origin

• From pre- + dental