orthodontics

English

Etymology

From ortho- (“correct, straight”) +‎ -odont +‎ -ics.

Pronunciation

• enPR: ōrthôdŏntĭks
• Hyphenation: or‧tho‧don‧tics

Noun

orthodontics (uncountable)

1. (medicine) A specialty of dentistry concerned with correcting misalignment of teeth.

Synonyms

• orthodontia

Hypernyms

• dentistry (hypernymous from most cognitive viewpoints albeit sometimes framed as coordinate when the notion of general dentistry is implied)

Coordinate terms

• prosthodontics

Translations

correcting misalignment of teeth

• Armenian: օրթոդոնտիա (ōrtʻodontia)
• Azerbaijani: ortodontiya
• Catalan: ortodòncia f, ortodontologia f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 牙齒矯正／牙齿矫正 (yáchǐ jiǎozhèng), 正畸 (zhèngjī), (as a field of study) 齒顎矯正學／齿颚矫正学 (chǐ'è jiǎozhèng xué)

• Czech: ortodoncie f
• Dutch: orthodontie (nl) f
• Finnish: oikomishoito (fi), hampaiden oionta
• French: orthodontie (fr)
• German: Kieferorthopädie f
• Greek: ορθοδοντική (el) f (orthodontikí)
• Hungarian: fogszabályozás (hu)
• Italian: ortodonzia (it) f
• Portuguese: ortodontia (pt) f
• Spanish: ortodoncia (es) f
• Swedish: ortodonti (sv) c, tandreglering (sv) c
• Vietnamese: chỉnh nha, chỉnh hình răng, chỉnh răng