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trench mouth

DEFINITIONS OF: trench mouth

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n an acute communicable infection of the respiratory tract and mouth marked by ulceration of the mucous membrane

Synonyms:
Vincent's angina, Vincent's infection
Type of:
contagion, contagious disease
any disease easily transmitted by contact
angina
any disease of the throat or fauces marked by spasmodic attacks of intense suffocative pain
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