[I]f no Acid be contain’d in the Blood how comes it, I beſeech you, that in Carious or Virulent Ulcers, the Silver Probe becomes inſtantly of a Livid Colour, which can only be effected by an Acid not an Alkalous Menſtruum?
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Carious
//ˈkɛəɹi.əs//
Synonyms for "carious" (18 found)
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2 entriesTranslations
8 translations across 7 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- кариозен adj (having caries (bone or tooth decay))
Finnish
2 entries- karioottinen adj (having caries (bone or tooth decay))
- reikäinen adj (having caries (bone or tooth decay))
French
1 entries- carieux adj (having caries (bone or tooth decay))
Italian
1 entries- cariato adj (having caries (bone or tooth decay))
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- محفور adj (having caries (bone or tooth decay))
Portuguese
1 entries- cariado adj (having caries (bone or tooth decay))
Russian
1 entries- карио́зный adj (having caries (bone or tooth decay))
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
Our disease is democracy. It is not the skin that festers—our very bones are carious, and their marrow blackens with gangrene. Which rogues shall be first, is of no moment—our republicanism must die, and I am sorry for it.
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My father’s museum contained several preparations of carious teeth.
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Many chinchillas suffer from carious-like changes of the cheek teeth and odontoclastic resorptions close to the gingiva[…]. While carious defects typically lead to localized, brownish discolorations of the occlusal surface and the interproximal area, odontoclastic resorption of the teeth is characterized more by an appearance of the lateral surfaces of the teeth resembling moth damage[…].
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