pyorrhea alveolaris

1. 1.

   chronic periodontitis; purulent inflammation of the teeth sockets

   SynonymspyorrheapyorrhoeaRiggs' disease

   Broaderperiodontal disease

   Narrowerpericementoclasia

Questions about pyorrhea alveolaris

What does pyorrhea alveolaris mean?

pyorrhea alveolaris means "chronic periodontitis; purulent inflammation of the teeth sockets".

What is another word for pyorrhea alveolaris?

Close synonyms include pyorrhea, pyorrhoea, Riggs' disease. 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 pyorrhea alveolaris a common word?

pyorrhea alveolaris 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.