Crossword clues for caries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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 islands.
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
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 that "semantically, caries may just as well belong to careocared 'to lack' as 'defect, state of defectiveness' ...."\n
Wiktionary
n. The progressive destruction of bone or tooth by decay
WordNet
n. soft decayed area in a tooth; progressive decay can lead to the death of a tooth [syn: cavity, dental caries, tooth decay]
Wikipedia
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.