Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In pathology, looseness of the teeth (particularly the molars) in their sockets.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.), Archaic A disease of the teeth, which causes them to loosen and fall out of their sockets.
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- noun medicine A
disease of theteeth that causes them toloosen and fall out of theirsockets .
Etymologies
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From γόμφος, meaning peg. New Latin, from Ancient Greek.
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