GG: n

S: http://www.drhealth.md/pyorrhoea/ (last access: 4 September 2014); http://www.medindia.net/homeremedies/pyorrhea.asp (last access: 8 October 2015).

N: 1. : Two meanings:

• a discharge of pus.
• an advanced form of chronic periodontitis marked especially by the discharge of pus from the alveoli—called also Riggs’ disease.

2. In Dentistry, the most prevalent periodontal disease is periodontitis, commonly called pyorrhea, an inflammatory condition usually produced by local irritants. Periodontitis, if untreated, destroys the periodontal tissues and is a major cause of the loss of teeth in adults.

S: 1. MW – http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pyorrhea (last access: 28 August 2014). 2. EncBrit – http://global.britannica.com/science/pyorrhea (last access: 28 August 2014).

GV: pyorrhoea

S: GDT – http://www.granddictionnaire.com/ficheOqlf.aspx?Id_Fiche=17026991 (last access: 8 October 2015)

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CR: periodontitis