bite plate

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   a removable dental appliance that is worn in the palate for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes

   Synonymsbiteplate

   Broaderdental appliance

Questions about bite plate

What does bite plate mean?

bite plate means "a removable dental appliance that is worn in the palate for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes".

What is another word for bite plate?

Close synonyms include biteplate. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bite plate a common word?

bite plate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.