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Caries  n.  (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.






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"Caries" Quotes from Famous Books



... Scrophula suppurans. Suppurating scrophula. 14. Scorbutus suppurans. Suppurating scurvy. 15. Schirrus suppurans. Suppurating schirrus. 16. Carcinoma. Cancer. 17. Arthrocele. Swelling of the joints. 18. Arthropuosis. Suppuration of the joints. 19. Caries ossium. Caries of ...
— Zoonomia, Vol. II - Or, the Laws of Organic Life • Erasmus Darwin

... the odor arising from caries is combined with that of the stomach. If the mouth be well rinsed with a teaspoonful of the solution of the chloride in a tumbler of water, the bad odor of the teeth ...
— The Ladies Book of Useful Information - Compiled from many sources • Anonymous

... Rigaud, Fergusson, and others have performed similar operations, secondary to amputation at the shoulder-joint, for cases of caries and malignant tumour. It is impossible to give any exact directions for the incisions which must be planned for individual cases, with two chief aims, to avoid haemorrhage as far as possible, and to leave abundance of skin. In operations on the scapula, it should be freely exposed ...
— A Manual of the Operations of Surgery - For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners • Joseph Bell

... the skull had been caused by some particular circumstances that no one was willing to reveal to him, but which he says are reported in the journal of the directors of this woman, and which will soon be published. Most medical men will come to the conclusion that it was due to caries and necrosis of the bone, of ...
— Fasting Girls - Their Physiology and Pathology • William Alexander Hammond

... progressed. One day, just after McTeague had put in the temporary gutta-percha fillings and nothing more could be done at that sitting, Trina asked him to examine the rest of her teeth. They were perfect, with one exception—a spot of white caries on the lateral surface of an incisor. McTeague filled it with gold, enlarging the cavity with hard-bits and hoe-excavators, and burring in afterward with half-cone burrs. The cavity was deep, and Trina began to wince and moan. To hurt Trina was a positive anguish for McTeague, yet an anguish ...
— McTeague • Frank Norris

... them, you would have found their contents thoroughly explanatory, entering into the most minute details—as to how Napoleon's change of ministers would affect "the situation;" how poor Francis Joseph's attack of caries might, could and would raise again the ghost of "the Eastern question;" how the advent of the great Radical leader in Ireland would be the signal for a general Fenian uprising— and, ...
— She and I, Volume 2 - A Love Story. A Life History. • John Conroy Hutcheson

... have my work approved by the Med Service. I submit that in some areas on ancient Earth, iodine was put into the public water-supply systems to prevent goiters and cretinism. Fluorine was put into drinking water to prevent caries. On Tralee the public water supply has traces of zinc and cobalt added. These are necessary trace elements. Why should you not concede that here there are trace elements or trace ...
— The Hate Disease • William Fitzgerald Jenkins



Words linked to "Caries" :   Tilletia caries, carious, tooth decay, dental caries, decay, cavity



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