What does riggs' disease mean?

riggs' disease means "chronic periodontitis; purulent inflammation of the teeth sockets".

What is another word for riggs' disease?

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

riggs' disease 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.

riggs' disease — meaning, pronunciation and definition

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1.
chronic periodontitis; purulent inflammation of the teeth sockets
Synonymspyorrhea pyorrhoea pyorrhea alveolaris
Broaderperiodontal disease
Narrowerpericementoclasia

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