Definitions
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- noun Flowing or
discharge ofpus ;periodontitis
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- noun discharge of pus
- noun chronic periodontitis; purulent inflammation of the teeth sockets
Etymologies
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Examples
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The teeth of the stoot are terribly sharp and pyorrhoea is not unknown in this species.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-09-08 Various
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Had he been born on the lower reaches of the Yukon and baptised by a remittance man in a Wesleyan Chapel, he would probably not have suffered so acutely from the cold as he did at Guffle Hoe, nor could he have been more persistently victimised and handicapped in after life by bronchial asthma and pyorrhoea of the gums.
Terribly Intimate Portraits Noel Coward 1936
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This pyorrhoea alveolaris, as it is called, constitutes a very great danger to the patient's health, the purulent discharge teems with poisonous micro-organisms, which being constantly swallowed are apt to give rise to septic disease in various organs.
Youth and Sex Mary Scharlieb 1887
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It is a valuable aid in dental ailments such as bleeding gums and pyorrhoea.
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It is a valuable aid in dental ailments such as bleeding gums and pyorrhoea.
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And was circumspectly pyorrhoea into the box, tuscarora my naprosyn medina into an unhearing commute ferryman, tegucigalpa the mac coreidae and homomorphism in a commutative epicurus to our kaput neurobiological.
Rational Review 2009
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"Up to 93 percent people are affected by some form of pyorrhoea.
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