abscessed tooth

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   an abscess of a common kind in the tissue around a tooth

   Broaderabscess

Questions about abscessed tooth

What does abscessed tooth mean?

abscessed tooth means "an abscess of a common kind in the tissue around a tooth".

Is abscessed tooth a common word?

abscessed tooth is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.