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VINCENT'S ANGINA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An acute communicable infection of the respiratory tract and mouth marked by ulceration of the mucous membrane
Synonyms:
trench mouth; Vincent's angina; Vincent's infection
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("Vincent's angina" is a kind 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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