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Dental problem
Answer for the clue "Dental problem ", 6 letters:
caries
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Word definitions for caries in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. soft decayed area in a tooth; progressive decay can lead to the death of a tooth [syn: cavity , dental caries , tooth decay ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The progressive destruction of bone or tooth by decay
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 ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Carib \Car"ib\, n.; pl. Caries . [See Cannibal .] (Ethol.) A native of the Caribbee islands or the coasts of the Caribbean sea; esp., one of a tribe of Indians inhabiting a region of South America, north of the Amazon, and formerly most of the West India ...
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.