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Dental vs Labial - What's the difference?

dental | labial |

As adjectives the difference between dental and labial

is that dental is of or concerning the teeth, as in dental care while labial is of or pertaining to the lips or labia.

As nouns the difference between dental and labial

is that dental is cleaning and polishing of an animal's teeth while labial is a labial consonant.

dental

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of or concerning the teeth, as in dental care .
  • Of or concerning dentistry.
  • (phonetics) Made with the tongue touching the teeth, as in dental fricative .

    • Synonyms

    * (pertaining to teeth)

    Related terms

    * dentist * dentulous * edentulous

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (veterinary medicine) Cleaning and polishing of an animal's teeth.
  •  (label) A dental sound.

    • Synonyms

    * (sense, cleaning and polishing of animal's teeth) prophy

    Anagrams

    * ----

    labial

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of or pertaining to the lips or labia
  • (linguistics) articulated by the lips, as the consonants b, m and w
  • (dentistry) Of an incisor or canine, on the side facing the lips. See mesial.
  • (music) Furnished with lips.
    • a labial organ pipe

    Derived terms

    * postlabial * prelabial

    Coordinate terms

    * * (linguistics) coronal, dorsal, radical, laryngeal

    Noun

    (labial consonant) (en noun)
  • (linguistics) a labial consonant
  • (music) an organ pipe having a lip that influences its sound
  • Any of the scales bordering the mouth opening of a reptile.

    • Hyponyms

    * (linguistics) bilabial, labiodental

    Derived terms

    * labial artery * labial consonant * labial geyser * labial-alveolar consonant * labial-palatal approximant * labial-palatal consonant * bilabial click