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ENT

Medicine/Medical. ear, nose, and throat.

-ent

a suffix, equivalent to -ant, appearing in nouns and adjectives of Latin origin: accident; different.

Origin:
< L -ent- (s. of -ēns), prp. suffix of conjugations 2, 3, 4
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ENT  
abbr.   Medicine
ear, nose, and throat
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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 in Eng. were changed back to what was supposed to be correct L.
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: ENT
Function: abbreviation
ear, nose, and throat
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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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