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Definition: Caries |
CariesNoun1. Soft decayed area in a tooth; progressive decay can lead to the death of a tooth. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: CariesSynonyms: cavity (n), dental caries (n), tooth decay (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Disease | Sore, ulcer, abscess, fester, boil; pimple, wen; (swelling); carbuncle, gathering, imposthume, peccant humor, issue; rot, canker, cold sore, fever sore; cancer, carcinoma, leukemia, neoplastic disease, malignancy, tumor; caries, mortification, corruption, gangrene, sphacelus, sphacelation, leprosy; eruption, rash, breaking out. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Caries |
| English words defined with "caries": bacterial plaque, bunt ♦ Cariosity ♦ dental caries, dental plaque ♦ stinking smut ♦ Tilletia caries, Tilletia foetida. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "caries": Acidulated Phosphate Fluoride, astronomical parallel ♦ caries texture, Cariogenic Agents ♦ Dental Fissures ♦ Fluorides, Topical ♦ love ♦ Pit and Fissure Sealants ♦ Root Caries ♦ Streptococcus sobrinus ♦ Tin Fluorides, Tooth Demineralization, Tuberculosis, Spinal. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "caries": Carib, Carious. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Caries" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Danish (caries), Latin (corruption, decay, rottennes, rottenness), Spanish (caries, cavities, decay, tooth decay). |
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 | Thioglycollate broth culture. Morphology is rod-like with chains when cultured on broth. Can cause subacute bacterial endocarditis and dental caries. Streptococci.Credit: CDC. |  | Thioglycollate culture. Morphology is rod-like with chains when cultured on broth. Can cause subacute bacterial endocarditis and dental caries. Streptococci.Credit: CDC. |
 | Blood agar plate culture yields coccal-like morphology without chains. The S. mutans organism can cause subacute bacterial endocarditis and dental caries. Streptococci.Credit: CDC. |  | Demonstration of the infectious nature of dental caries ...Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Animals housed in germfree tanks were used to clarify the dental caries process.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Sellantes y Fluoruros- : Protección maxima contra las caries.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Caries is an etiologically complex disease process. (references) | |
Nevertheless, dental caries remains a significant problem. (references) | ||
The dental profession has been successful in promoting caries prevention. (references) | ||
Business | Of dentate residents, caries in the crown and the root, and significant plaque and tartar accumulation, are major problems. (references) | |
Due to the decline in the incidence of dental caries, demand for dental services that correspond to these problems has declined. (references) | ||
During the 1960s and 1970s, when the incidence of dental caries in Australia was high, many dentistry graduates from overseas countries were permitted to register to practice in Australia. (references) | ||
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder. This disease, like caries and many other ailments, is prevalent only among civilized races living under artificial conditions; barbarous nations breathing pure air and eating simple food enjoy immunity from its ravages. It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician than to the patient. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Caries" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Caries" is used about 17 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% | 17 | 85,106 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "caries": dental caries ♦ Root Caries ♦ Tilletia caries. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "caries"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | karies, kalbje (decay, putrefaction, rot, taint), gërryerje (abrasion, chew, corrosion, denudation, depreciation, detrition, erosion, weathering). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | نخر الأسنان, سوسة, النخر. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | кариес, загниване на кост. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 龋. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | zubní kaz (dental caries, tooth decay). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | caries (carie, dental carie). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | cariës. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | پوسیدگی استخوان , کرم خوردگی دندان (Cavity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | hammasmätä. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | carie (f), carie (carie, dental carie). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | karies. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | τερηδόνα (carie, dental carie, dental decay, tooth decay). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | עששת (tooth decay). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | csontszú. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | carie (carie, decay, dental carie, tooth decay). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 虫歯 (cavity, decayed tooth, tooth decay), 齲歯 (cavity, decayed tooth, tooth decay), 齲 (cavity, decayed tooth, tooth decay), カラー写真 (ballads sung by Karashima Midori, calif, California, California roll, calligraphy, carat, caricature, caricaturize, cauliflower, charisma, charismatic, color photo, colorful, column, curriculum, Kaliglas, Karachi, karaoke, karat, potash glass, potassium, water outlet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | うし (cattle, cavity, cow, decayed tooth, second sign of Chinese zodiac, tooth decay), むしば (cavity, decayed tooth, tooth decay), カリエス . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 카리에스. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | loauys (decay, gangrene, putresence, putridity, rot, rottenness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ariescay cárie, cárie, apodrecimento (addlement, decay). (various references) carie (rottenness). (various references) костоеда, кариоз. (various references) truljenje (decay, decomposition, moldering, mouldering, putrefaction, rotting), karijes (cavity). (various references) caries (carie, cavities, decay, dental carie, tooth decay). (various references) tandröta, benröta. (various references) yenirce, kemik çürümesi, diş çürümesi. (various references) руйнування (bad, breaking, collapse, demolition, destruction, the sword, upset, wrack, wrecking), костоїда, карі"с. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "caries": anticaries, apothecaries, formicaries, peccaries, piscaries. (additional references) | |
Words containing "caries": scariest. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: cerias, ericas. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-r-s" | |
-1 letter: acres, areic, arise, cares, carse, ceria, cires, cries, erica, escar, races, raise, rices, saice, scare, serac, serai. | |
-2 letters: aces, acre, airs, arcs, ares, arse, asci, care, cars, case, cire, cris, ears, eras, ices, ires, race, rase, recs, reis, rias, rice, rise, sari, scar, sear, sera, sice, sire. | |
-3 letters: ace, air, ais, arc, are. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-r-s" | |
+1 letter: arcsine, arsenic, ascribe, cahiers, caribes, carices, carnies, carries, cashier, claries, crazies, cristae, eclairs, farcies, fiacres, raciest, radices, saucier, scalier, scarier, scoriae, scrapie, sidecar, spacier, stearic, varices, viscera. | |
+2 letters: acarines, acquires, acridest, aerobics, agrestic, aircrews, airscape, airscrew, airspace, archaise, archines, archives, arcsines, arsenics, articles, ascribed, ascribes, aspheric, auricles, avarices, breccias, brisance, caesuric, calibers, calibres, calipers, calories, canaries, canister, caprices, carbides, carbines, carioles, carlines, carmines, carriers, cashiers, casimere, casimire, causerie, caviares, cavilers, ceramics, ceramist, ceratins, cesarian, chariest, charlies, chimeras, cigarets, cisterna, citrates, claimers, classier, claviers, crabwise, crannies, crappies, craziest, creasier, creasing, creatins, cremains, crispate, cristate, curacies, deciares, decrials, disgrace, epicarps, ergastic, erratics, eucharis, fanciers, glaciers, graciles, grimaces, idocrase, inarches, increase, keramics, lanciers, marchesi, matrices, miracles, mistrace, narceins, parchesi, parecism, paretics, peracids, perisarc, picrates, piracies, practise, racemism, rachides, rachises, raciness, radicels, radicles, recitals, reclaims, replicas, sapremic, scabbier, scantier, scariest, scariose, scarrier, scattier, scenario, scimetar, scrapies, seraphic, sidecars, spiracle, sterical, suricate, tacrines, theriacs, varicose, visceral, wiseacre. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 61 72 69 65 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .- .-. .. . ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01100001 01110010 01101001 01100101 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C a r i e s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0061 0072 0069 0065 0073 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)376784757185 |
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