A Dictionary of Dental Science: Consisting of Words and Phrases Used (Classic Reprint)

The aim of the author of this work has been to produce an up-todate dental dictionary sufficiently full to meet the requirements of all classes of dental practitioners and students of dentistry. Only those words from the collateral sciences have been included with which it is felt the dentist and dental student should be familiar as relating definitely to his own specialty. In some instances, however, words have been included that do not come strictly within the scope of dentistry, but they have been incorporated for the purpose of aiding those interested in dental nomenclature in making use of the root words and combinations in the formation of new words related particularly to the technical phase of dentistry. Realizing, as must all who have had to do with dental literature, the need of a definite place of record of distinctly technical dental terms, the author has had the temerity, at the risk of criticism that comes to all authors, to undertake a task that presented numerous obstacles which had to be surmounted before the work could come to fruition. The helpful advice and kindly encouragement he has received from nimierous professional friends, to say nothing of the personal benefit that the pursuit of such a work has afforded, more than recompenses the energy expended and the sacrifice consequent upon the drudgery of the task. Special consideration has been given to the matter of pronunciation, adopting the simple and easily comprehended plan of dividing the words into their natural syllabic divisions, with the acute accent mark to designate the accented syllable, thus eliminating the confusion so often attendant upon the phonetic method of pronunciation, yet indicating with accuracy the exact pronunciation of the words.
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