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Definition of Carious
1. Adjective. (of teeth) affected with cavities or decay.
Definition of Carious
1. a. Affected with caries; decaying; as, a carious tooth.
Definition of Carious
1. Adjective. Having caries; decayed. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Carious
1. decayed [adj]
Medical Definition of Carious
1. Relating to or affected with caries. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Carious
Literary usage of Carious
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare (1912)
"... he and Philostrate summon the 'carious actors by going to steps, beckoning
and being tlie general guides. Each actor as he comes on looks supremely ..."
2. Eugenics Laboratory Memoirs by Galton Laboratory for National Eugenics (1907)
"CONDITION OF TEETH IN CHILDREN So that we see, roughly, that D 5 returns 70 per
cent, of cases of two carious teeth as " Several," 85 per cent, ..."
3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1849)
"... infiltrated with the morbid product; sacro-iliac articulation was diseased
also.—Lancet, July 8, 1848. 57. Removal of a carious Portion of a Rib. ..."
4. Journal of the British Dental Association by British Dental Association (1891)
"It seems to be assumed that drying softened dentine and sealing it beneath an
impermeable filling is not enough to put an end to carious action. ..."
5. General Surgical Pathology and Therapeutics by Theodor Billroth (1872)
"If you saw or cut out a piece from a carious spot, and abstract the chalky salts
from the bone by chromic ... Section of a piece of carious bono (carles ..."
6. A Practical treatise on dental medicine: Being a Compendium of Medical by Thomas Emerson Bond (1852)
"carious Ulcers are those which are connected with caries or necrosis of bony ...
Mr. Bell thought that the fetor of carious ulcers always afforded a ..."
7. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1883)
"Removal of carious Portions of the Vertebral Bodies.—Ur. Boeckel relates the
history of a case in which he removed the carious portion of the bodies of two ..."
8. Medico-Chirurgical Transactions by Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London (1862)
"There is, of course, nothing unusual in the development of so-called " abscess"
of the antrum from a carious tooth; such cases are of frequent occurrence, ..."
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