bacterial plaque

1. 1.

   a film of mucus and bacteria deposited on the teeth that encourages the development of dental caries

   Synonymsdental plaque

   Broaderplaque

Questions about bacterial plaque

What does bacterial plaque mean?

bacterial plaque means "a film of mucus and bacteria deposited on the teeth that encourages the development of dental caries".

What is another word for bacterial plaque?

Close synonyms include dental plaque. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bacterial plaque a common word?

bacterial plaque 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.