caries
21Caries — Dental cavities. Holes in the two outer layers of a tooth called the enamel and the dentin. The enamel is the outermost white hard surface and the dentin is the yellow layer just beneath enamel. Both layers serve to protect the inner living tooth …
22caries — s f sing y pl (Med) 1 Disolución y desintegración del esmalte y la dentina de los dientes, y putrefacción de su pulpa, por acción de bacterias productoras de ácidos: tener una caries, caries dental 2 Necrosis molecular del hueso, de naturaleza… …
23caries — [[t]ke͟əriz[/t]] N UNCOUNT Caries is decay in teeth. [TECHNICAL] Fluoride in drinking water can help prevent dental caries in the teeth of growing children. Syn: decay …
24caries — n. decay of bone or tooth. ♦ cariogenic, a. producing caries. ♦ carious, a. pertaining to caries; decayed …
25Caries — Carib Car ib, n.; pl. {Caries}. [See {Cannibal}.] (Ethol.) A native of the Caribbee islands or the coasts of the Caribbean sea; esp., one of a tribe of Indians inhabiting a region of South America, north of the Amazon, and formerly most of the… …
26caries — noun (plural caries) Etymology: Latin, decay; akin to Old Irish ara chrinn it decays Date: 1634 a progressive destruction of bone or tooth; especially tooth decay …
27caries — sustantivo femenino 1) picadura. Picadura es principio de caries de los dientes. 2) tizón (en los cereales). * * * Sinónimos: ■ picadura, úlcera, perforación, horadación …
28caries — noun (U) technical decay in someone s teeth: dental caries …
29caries — n. decay and crumbling of the substance of a tooth (see dental caries) or a bone. Derivatives: carious adj …
30caries — car•ies [[t]ˈkɛər iz, iˌiz[/t]] n. pl. ies 1) den phl decay, as of bone or of plant tissue 2) den dental caries • Etymology: 1625–35; < L car′i•ous, adj …
