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Trench mouth

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Acute necrotizing ulcerative gingivitis, a severe bacterial infection of the gums, typically characterized by inflammation, bleeding, deep ulceration, necrotized tissue, pain, fever, enlarged lymph nodes, fatigue, and halitosis. idiomatic, uncountable

    ""Trench mouth" is one of the war diseases which is engaging the attention of British army doctors."

  2. 2
    an acute communicable infection of the respiratory tract and mouth marked by ulceration of the mucous membrane wordnet

Etymology

Probably coined during World War I when the disease was common among soldiers in the trenches during trench warfare.

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