dental chair
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- noun
- /ˈdɛntəl tʃɛr/
- Specialized
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- An attendant strapped them into reclining seats that reminded Harry unpleasantly of dental chairs, between plastic curtains that were like the way they curtained somebody off in the hospital when they were about to die.
Examples
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A small memory came: himself in the dental chair in Dr. Yost's office, Dr. Yost questioning the assistant about a mistake.
Fiction book (1999) -
See him sitting in the dental chair, his back to the door.
Fiction book (1998) -
The dental chair occupied the middle of my office like a gallows.
Fiction book (1995) -
Swiftly grab his arms, pull them back, and handcuff them to the dental chair.
Fiction book (1998) -
In a laughing gas haze, he struggled to get up from the dental chair in which he was reclining to rush home and stop her, but though his mind told his limbs to move, they stayed put.
Fiction book (1990) -
The patient relaxed in the dental chair as the dentist prepared for the procedure.
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Before starting the treatment, the dentist asked the patient to sit back comfortably in the dental chair.
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He gripped the arms of the dental chair tightly while the dentist examined his teeth.
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently derived from combining 'dental' (relating to teeth or dentists) with 'chair' (a seat); a B1 learner who knows both words can infer it is the chair used in a dentist's office. This adjective+noun composition is a common, literal pattern across languages and follows standard English modifier+noun semantics, making it immediately comprehensible.
Etymology
Dental chair is the simple name for a special chair made for dental work. The chair can lean back and often has lights and places for tools so the dentist can reach your mouth easily, so that's why it means 'a chair in a dentist's office for dental procedures'.