BRACES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does braces mean? 

• BRACES (noun)
  The noun BRACES has 1 sense:

1. an appliance that corrects dental irregularities

  Familiarity information: BRACES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BRACES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An appliance that corrects dental irregularities

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

brace; braces; orthodontic braces

Hypernyms ("braces" is a kind of...):

dental appliance (a device to repair teeth or replace missing teeth)

 Context examples 

Orthodontic care involves the use of devices, such as braces, to: • Straighten teeth • Correct problems with bite • Close gaps between teeth • Align lips and teeth properly

(Orthodontia, NIH)

Treatments include exercise, pain medicine, physical therapy, wheelchairs, braces, and surgery.

(Osteogenesis Imperfecta, NIH: National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases)

A gel used to lessen pain from mouth sores caused by chemotherapy or radiation therapy, oral surgery, braces, or disease.

(Gelclair, NCI Dictionary)

You can treat symptoms with medicines, braces, surgery, and physical therapy.

(Friedreich's Ataxia, NIH: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)

Cosmetic dentistry is different from orthodontic treatment, which can straighten your teeth with braces or other devices.

(Cosmetic Dentistry, NIH)

Physical therapy, occupational therapy, braces and other devices and sometimes surgery can help.

(Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease, NIH: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)

A coat and waistcoat were lying on the floor, and from a hook behind the door, with his own braces round his neck, was hanging the managing director of the Franco-Midland Hardware Company.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Treatment includes medicines, braces, and physical, occupational and speech therapy.

(Cerebral Palsy, NIH: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)

I am already far north of London, and as I walk in the streets of Petersburgh, I feel a cold northern breeze play upon my cheeks, which braces my nerves and fills me with delight.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

We got the starboard tacks aboard, we cast off our weather-braces and lifts; we set in the lee-braces, and hauled forward by the weather-bowlings, and hauled them tight, and belayed them, and hauled over the mizen tack to windward, and kept her full and by as near as she would lie.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)