odontolith

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noun

dental tartar

Scrabble 14

Meanings

nounodontolith (uncountable)
  1. uncountabledental tartar

    Treatments vary according to each stage of the disease but the principal care would be instruction on keeping the oral cavity clean and the removal of odontolith by specialists.

    2013, Masumi Inaba, Yoshikata Inaba, Human Body Odor: Etiology, Treatment, and Related Factors, page 100

Origin

Translations

Greek οδοντόλιθος
  • οδοντόλιθος (odontólithos)dental tartar
Italian odontolito
  • odontolitodental tartar
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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “odontolith,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/odontolith.

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