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caries
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Word definitions for caries in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Caries \Ca"ri*es\, n. [L., decay.] (Med.) Ulceration of bone; a process in which bone disintegrates and is carried away piecemeal, as distinguished from necrosis, in which it dies in masses.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1630s, from Latin caries "rottenness, decay," from Proto-Italic *kas- , usually said to be from PIE root *kere- "to injure, break apart" (cognates: Greek ker "death, destruction," Old Irish krin "withered, faded"). Related: Carious . But de Vaan writes ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE dental ▪ Tooth loss in people under 60, however, is usually caused by dental caries . EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ dental caries EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Children in the lower socioeconomic groups, particularly black ...
Usage examples of caries.
It next invades the vertebrae themselves, and producing caries, or death and decay of the bony substance, which softens and wastes away, as shown in Fig.
You can hardly appreciate the curse of dental caries in those days.
The kids were as healthy as they looked, aside from slight dental caries in him, two small cavities.
The dentition pattern, although showing remarkably advanced dental caries, is definitely human.
Counteracts dental caries but too much of it can discolour the teeth.
Was it possible that dental caries had returned to plague mankind again, after all these centuries?
But both Schmaus and Horsley have exposed the true pathological anatomy of spinal caries.