Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to the gums.
- adjective Linguistics Alveolar.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to the gums; in phonetics, produced upon or against the gums: sometimes used of certain alphabetic sounds
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to the gums.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Relating to the
gums . - adjective linguistics (
obsolete )Alveolar .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to the gums
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Examples
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This particular type of cancer is also known as gingival cancer.
Search for "anxiety" 2010
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Because if it was a severe one, there would have been some kind of damage to the gingival of the mouth or some bruising on the nose.
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I don't take away too much of the gingival tissue, but I get enough so it won't heal back over and the new tooth has a chance to erupt.
Eruption Hematoma (gums turning blue?) Dr. Dean Brandon 2006
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The dental lasers currently available are quite useful at soft tissue surgery, that is things like gingival contouring.
Dental Lasers Dr. Dean Brandon 2006
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Some seizure medications can cause gingival hyperplasia. baby teeth seem to come in in odd orders and sometimes quite delayed, but, really, I would get a pediatric dentist to take a look.
Eruption Hematoma (gums turning blue?) Dr. Dean Brandon 2006
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- Risk of digestive problems: gingival hypertrophy, nausea, vomiting.
Chapter 4 1993
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Anesthetise the palatine mucous membrane, 1 cm from the gingival margin.
Chapter 6 1989
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Allport 1.38 reports the history of a case in which there was recession of the gingival margins and alveolar processes, the consequence of amenorrhea.
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Allport reports the history of a case in which there was recession of the gingival margins and alveolar processes, the consequence of amenorrhea.
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When used in small quantities and with proper toilet of the mouth, and this is the common practice among the Filipinos, buyo seems to be a very useful preservative of the teeth and a gingival and stomachic tonic.
The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines Jerome Beers Thomas 1891
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