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ENT
Medicine/Medical. ear, nose, and throat.
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-ent
a suffix, equivalent to -ant, appearing in nouns and adjectives of Latin origin: accident; different.
Origin:
< Latin -ent- (stem of -ēns), present participle suffix of conjugations 2, 3, 4
< Latin -ent- (stem of -ēns), present participle suffix of conjugations 2, 3, 4
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Link To ENT
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Ent
is always a great word to know.
So is calcanei. Does it mean:
| the basinlike cavity in the lower part of the trunk of many vertebrates, formed in humans by the innominate bones, sacrum, etc. |
| the largest tarsal bone, forming the prominence of the heel. |
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World English Dictionary
| ENT | |
| —abbreviation for | |
| ear, nose, and throat | |
| -ent | |
| —suffix forming adjectives, —suffix forming nouns | |
| causing or performing an action or existing in a certain condition; the agent that performs an action: astringent; dependent | |
| [from Latin -ent-, -ens, present participial ending] | |
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Word Origin & History
-ent
suffix forming adjectives from nouns or verbs, from Fr. -ent, from L. -entem, pp. ending of verbs in -ere/-ire. O.Fr. changed many to -ant but after c.1500 some of these in English were changed back to what was supposed to be correct Latin.
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Medical Dictionary
ENT abbr.
ear, nose, and throat
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Abbreviations & Acronyms
| ENT ear, nose, and throat |
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Another player could make patent from pat, but would only receive points for ent.
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