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DOCTOR OF DENTAL SURGERY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Doctor of Dental Surgery mean?
• DOCTOR OF DENTAL SURGERY (noun)
The noun DOCTOR OF DENTAL SURGERY has 1 sense:
1. a doctor's degree in dental surgery
Familiarity information: DOCTOR OF DENTAL SURGERY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• DOCTOR OF DENTAL SURGERY (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A doctor's degree in dental surgery
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
DDS; Doctor of Dental Surgery
Hypernyms ("Doctor of Dental Surgery" is a kind of...):
doctor's degree; doctorate (one of the highest earned academic degrees conferred by a university)
Context examples
The Doctor of Dental Surgery degree is the first-professional, postgraduate degree awarded for graduates who have completed a program of studies in dental surgery.
(Doctor of Dental Surgery, NCI Thesaurus)
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