dry socket

1. 1.

   inflammation in the socket of a tooth; sometimes occurs after a tooth is extracted and a blood clot fails to form

   Synonymsalveolitis

   Broaderinflammation

Questions about dry socket

What does dry socket mean?

dry socket means "inflammation in the socket of a tooth; sometimes occurs after a tooth is extracted and a blood clot fails to form".

What is another word for dry socket?

Close synonyms include alveolitis. 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 dry socket a common word?

dry socket 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.