Dentiphone

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Dentiphone \Den"ti*phone\ (d[e^]n"t[i^]*f[=o]n), n. [L. dens,
     dentis, tooth + Gr. fwnh` sound.]
     An instrument which, placed against the teeth, conveys sound
     to the auditory nerve; an audiphone. --Knight.
     [1913 Webster]