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Caries (medicine) and quadruplicate(2) (iou)


Caries (medicine)


caries


1. <pathology> The molecular decay or death of a bone, in which it becomes softened, discoloured and porous.

It produces a chronic inflammation of the periosteum and surrounding tissues and forms a cold abscess filled with a cheesy, fetid, puslike liquid, which generally burrows through the soft parts until it opens externally by a sinus or fistula.

2. <dentistry> Another name for cavities due to tooth decay, dental caries.


quadruplicate(2) (iou)



quadruplicate verb trans. M17.
[Latin quadruplicat- pa. ppl stem of quadruplicare: see QUADRUPLICATE adjective & noun, -ATE3.]
Multiply by four; quadruple. M17.
Make or provide in quadruplicate. L19.