Parulis

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Synonym of gumboil.

    "This tooth had occasioned several fluxions, terminated by parulis, which opened sometimes spontaneously, and sometimes by the aid of cataplasms and emolient gargles; but, as the tooth had not been removed, the parulides remained fistulous […]"

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"This tooth had occasioned several fluxions, terminated by parulis, which opened sometimes spontaneously, and sometimes by the aid of cataplasms and emolient gargles; but, as the tooth had not been removed, the parulides remained fistulous […]"

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