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noun
Acute necrotizing ulcerative gingivitis, a severe bacterial infection of the gums, typically characterized by inflammation, bleeding, deep ulceration, necrotized tissue, pain, fever, enlarged lymph nodes, fatigue, and halitosis.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: idiomatic, uncountable
Topics: medicine, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
an acute communicable infection of the respiratory tract and mouth marked by ulceration of the mucous membrane
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: Vincent's angina, Vincent's infection
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: contagious disease, contagion, angina
History
Probably coined during World War I when the disease was common among soldiers in the trenches during trench warfare.
