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VINCENT'S ANGINA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Vincent's angina mean? 

VINCENT'S ANGINA (noun)
  The noun VINCENT'S ANGINA has 1 sense:

1. an acute communicable infection of the respiratory tract and mouth marked by ulceration of the mucous membraneplay

  Familiarity information: VINCENT'S ANGINA used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


VINCENT'S ANGINA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

An acute communicable infection of the respiratory tract and mouth marked by ulceration of the mucous membrane

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

trench mouth; Vincent's angina; Vincent's infection

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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