Periodontitis

Definition: Periodontitis

Periodontitis

Noun

1. A disease that attacks the gum and bone and around the teeth.

Specialty Definitions: Periodontitis

Domain	Definitions
Medicine	Inflammation of the periodontal membrane; also called periodontitis simplex. Source: European Union. (references)
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Synonym: Periodontitis

Synonym: periodontal disease (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Periodontitis

English words defined with "periodontitis": pyorrhea, pyorrhea alveolaris, pyorrhoea ♦ Riggs' disease. (references)

Specialty definitions using "periodontitis": Capnocytophaga ♦ Gingival Hemorrhage ♦ Papillon-Lefevre Disease, Periapical Periodontitis, Periodontal Abscess, Periodontal Attachment Loss. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Periodontitis

Domain	Title
References	The Official Patient's Sourcebook on Periodontitis (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	Essential Endodontology: Prevention and Treatment of Apical Periodontitis (reference) The Adhesion of Porphyromonas Gingivalis and Periodontitis (reference) (more book examples)
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Non-Fiction Usage: Periodontitis

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		There are often no warning signs of early periodontitis. (references)
		Periodontitis is an infection of the tissues that hold the teeth in place. (references)
		Treatment of periodontitis depends on how much damage the disease has caused. (references)
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Usage Frequency: Periodontitis

"Periodontitis" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Periodontitis" is used about 15 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	15	90,616

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Periodontitis

Expressions using "periodontitis": Periapical Periodontitis ♦ periodontitis simplex. Additional references.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Periodontitis

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
periodontitis	126
periodontitis juvenile	12
agresiva periodontitis	4
periodontitis treatment	3
periodontitis picture	3
aguda apical de periodontitis radiografia	2
periodontitis refractaria	2
periodontitis por tabaquismo	2
gingivitis periodontitis	2
en gingivitis niños periodontitis y	2
case diabetes periodontitis report	2
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Modern Translations: Periodontitis

Language		Translations for "periodontitis"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		periodontitis (alveolitis). (various references)

Dutch		periodontitis (alveolitis). (various references)

French		périostite dentaire (periodontilis simplex), périodontite (periodontitis simplex), péricémentite, desmodontite (periodontitis simplex), alvéolite. (various references)

German		Periodontitis (alveolitis), Pericementitis (alveolitis), Alveolitis (alveolitis). (various references)

Greek		περιοδοντίτις (alveolitis), ενδοφατνίτις (alveolitis). (various references)

Italian		periodontite (alveolitis). (various references)

Pig Latin		eriodontitispay

Portuguese		periodontite (alveolitis, periosteum), doença periodontal. (various references)

Spanish		periodontitis (alveolitis). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Periodontitis

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-e-i-i-i-n-o-o-p-r-s-t-t"
	-1 letter: periodontist.
	-2 letters: peritonitis, torpidities.
	-3 letters: deposition, desorption, detritions, distortion, inspirited, isoprenoid, perditions, positioned, reposition.
	-4 letters: depositor, detrition, disorient, dripstone, droopiest, perdition, petitions, pointiest, portioned, retinitis, retinoids, sortition, trinities, tripodies.
	-5 letters: derision, diopters, dioptres, diorites, dipteron, dirtiest, disinter, dispirit, doorstep, editions, inditers, inspired, inspirit, intorted, intrepid, introits, iodopsin, ironside, nepotist, nitrides, nitrites, optioned, otitides, peridots, petition.
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