lingualization
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
lingualize + -ation
Noun[edit]
lingualization (countable and uncountable, plural lingualizations)
- The act of representing something as a text in some language.
- The ability to represent something as text.
- 1997, Pondicherry Institute of Linguistics and Culture, [2]
- In the process of lingualization the child internalizes the system of language values and norms […]
- 1997, Pondicherry Institute of Linguistics and Culture, [2]
- (phonetics) The process of a sound becoming lingual.
- (orthodontics) The procedure of moving teeth towards the tongue side of the arch.[1]
- 2005, Paolo Ronchi, Orthodontic-surgical treatment of dentofacial anomalies: an integrated esthetic-functional approach
- As already stated, there is a natural mechanism in most Class III cases that compensates for the sagittal skeletal discrepancy, so that during growth a lingualization of the mandibular incisors develops together with a vestibularization […]
- 2005, Paolo Ronchi, Orthodontic-surgical treatment of dentofacial anomalies: an integrated esthetic-functional approach
References[edit]
- ^ J. L. Somers (updated in 2021), “Tooth Movements”, in Clear Correct[1], archived from the original on 2 January 2022, retrieved 2 January 2022