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caries

noun

1 caries

Soft decayed area in a tooth; progressive decay can lead to the death of a tooth.

synonyms: cavity, dental caries, tooth decay.

Roget 655: disease; illness, sickness etc. adj.; ailing &c.; all the ills that flesh is heir to" [Hamlet]; morbidity, morbosity; infirmity, ailment, indisposition; ... show more

Dutch: cariës
Polish: próchnica, próchnica zębów


Moby thesaurus: carrion, decay, decomposition, dry gangrene, dry rot, foulness, gangrene, gas gangrene, moist gangrene, mortification, necrosis, necrotic tissue, noma, putrefaction, putrescence, putridity, putridness, rancidity, rancidness, rankness ... show more.

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