Usually means: Replacement tooth in dental bridge.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. Pontic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. Pontic: Collins English Dictionary
  3. Pontic, pontic: Wordnik
  4. Pontic, pontic: Wiktionary
  5. Pontic: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  6. pontic: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. pontic: Dictionary.com
  8. Pontic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Pontic: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. pontic: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. Pontic: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. pontic: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. pontic: FreeDictionary.org
  14. Pontic: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Pontic: Glossary of Health Care Terms

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pontic: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. pontic: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. pontic: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pontic: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (Pontic)

noun:  A false tooth that forms part of a dental bridge.
adjective:  (anatomy) Relating to the pons.
adjective:  (historical) Of or relating to kingdom of Pontus.
adjective:  (historical) Of or relating to the region of Pontus in northern Anatolia.
adjective:  (linguistics) Of or relating to Pontic Greek, the dialect of Greek that developed in Pontus and is now spoken chiefly in rural northern Greece.
adjective:  (chiefly historical) Of or relating to the Black Sea.
noun:  Clipping of Pontic Greek, the dialect of Greek developed in Pontus and now chiefly spoken in rural northern Greece.

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