buccal

From Latin bucca (“the cheek”) +‎ -al.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbʌk.əl/

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• Homophone: buckle
• Rhymes: -ʌkəl

buccal (not comparable)

1. (anatomy, dentistry, relational) Of, relating to, near, involving, or supplying the cheek.

   Synonyms: (of a tooth) facial, genal

   buccal surface of the molars, buccal branch of the facial nerve

2. Of, relating to, or lying in the mouth.

   buccal cavity

3. (pharmacology) Administered in the mouth, not by swallowing but by absorption through the skin of the cheek; often by placing between the top gum and the inside of the lip.
4. (linguistics) supralaryngeal, not laryngeal or glottal.

• (dentistry location adjectives) anterior,‎ apical,‎ apicocoronal,‎ axial,‎ buccal,‎ buccoapical,‎ buccocervical,‎ buccogingival,‎ buccolabial,‎ buccolingual,‎ bucco-occlusal,‎ buccopalatal,‎ cervical,‎ coronal,‎ coronoapical,‎ distal,‎ distoapical,‎ distobuccal,‎ distocervical,‎ distocoronal,‎ distofacial,‎ distogingival,‎ distoincisal,‎ distolingual,‎ disto-occlusal,‎ distoclusal,‎ distocclusal,‎ distopalatal,‎ facial,‎ gingival,‎ incisal,‎ incisocervical,‎ inferior,‎ labial,‎ lingual,‎ linguobuccal,‎ linguo-occlusal,‎ mandibular,‎ maxillary,‎ mesial,‎ mesioapical,‎ mesiobuccal,‎ mesiocervical,‎ mesiocoronal,‎ mesiodistal,‎ mesiofacial,‎ mesioincisal,‎ mesiogingival,‎ mesiolingual,‎ mesio-occlusal,‎ mesioclusal,‎ mesiocclusal,‎ mesiopalatal,‎ occlusal,‎ palatal,‎ posterior,‎ proximal,‎ superior,‎ vestibular ^{(Category: en:Dentistry) [edit]}

• “buccal”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “buccal”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

Learned word formed from the root of Latin bucca (whence French bouche) with the suffix -al.

• IPA^(key): /by.kal/

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buccal (feminine buccale, masculine plural buccaux, feminine plural buccales)

1. buccal (of, relating to, or lying in the mouth)

• oral

• “buccal”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.