Abstract
Semantic relations play an important role in every language and it resolves the ambiguity of a polysemous word. Partonomy relations are important in many domains, but typically receive less attention than subsumption relation. This paper is an attempt to present a completepicture, as much as possible, of dental partonomy in Arabic by adopting the applicable model that best explains its nature. This is the first attempt where dentistry of Arabic brings its relationship with linguistics. Till this date semantic relations have not been used in the base line of dentistry. This paper investigates the role of partonomy in dental terminology spoken in Saudi Arabia and it attempts to analyze the nature of partonomy and its properties in Arabic.
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