DENTAL SURGERY

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The branch of dentistry involving surgical procedures

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("dental surgery" is a kind of...):

dental medicine; dentistry; odontology (the branch of medicine dealing with the anatomy and development and diseases of the teeth)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dental surgery"):

exodontia; exodontics (the branch of dentistry dealing with extraction of teeth)