The structural elements and construction details of a bridge, or the work involved in building bridges.
From 'bridge' + 'work' (Old English 'weorc'). This compound can refer both to the finished structure and the labor involved in creating it.
In dentistry, 'bridgework' refers to false teeth spanning a gap—borrowing the bridge metaphor to describe how artificial teeth 'cross' missing tooth spaces, showing how engineering terminology extends into medicine.
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