Crossword-Solution: CARIES
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Caries | pl. | of Carib |
| Caries | n. | Ulceration of bone; a process in which bone disintegrates and is carried away piecemeal, as distinguished from necrosis, in which it dies in masses. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| CARIES | anagram | ACIERS, CIERAS, ERICAS |
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| Dental decay. | 1 answer |
| The crumbling of a tooth | 1 answer |
| decay tooth | 1 answer |
| What fluoride prevents. | 1 answer |
| What dentists call tooth decay | 1 answer |
| Teeth trouble | 1 answer |
| TOOTH cavity | 1 answer |
| Dentist's case | 1 answer |
| Dentist discoveries | 1 answer |
| Decay of teeth or bones | 1 answer |
| DECAY of teeth | 1 answer |
| BONE decay | 1 answer |
| Dental concerns | 2 answers |
| Tooth decay | 2 answers |
| Molar maladies | 2 answers |
| Dental woe | 3 answers |
| Tooth problem | 5 answers |
| Dental problem | 11 answers |
| BONE disease/disorder | 13 answers |
| Decay | 65 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETERA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with CARIES (5)
This case is interesting from the novel mode of death, the perfect paralysis of the arm, paralysis agitans of the body (occurring as hemorrhage from the ear came on, and subsiding with it), and extensive caries of the petrous bone, without sensation of pain or any indicative symptoms.
Less than three months afterward the patient died with all the symptoms of marasmus, due to difficult deglutition, and at the autopsy an abscess was seen in the posterior wall of the pharynx, opposite the 3d cervical vertebra; extensive caries was also noticed in the bodies of the 2d, 3d, and 4th cervical vertebrae.
The atrophic type of scleroderma is preceded by an edema, and from pressure-atrophy of the fat and muscles the skin of the face is strained over the bones; the lips are shortened, the gums shrink from the teeth and lead to caries, and the nostrils are compressed.
During all that month, distressed by Pierrette’s horrible sufferings, Monsieur Martener made several journeys to Paris; there he consulted Desplein and Bianchon, and even went so far as to propose to them an operation of the nature of lithotrity, which consists in passing into the head a hollow instrument by the help of which an heroic remedy can be applied to the diseased bone, to arrest the progress of the caries.
With the single exception of George Caries, who seems to have had some Irish blood in his veins, these early missionaries were as English as Carey himself; and the greater number, as we can see from the names, were natives of Yorkshire.
Quotes with CARIES (3)
Though I love your company, your instructions are wasted her. I will always choose the woman who caries me off, I will always sit with the family of loneliness.
…if divinity, which is the goddess, is intrinsic to her being, something she caries around with her all the time, something she is, then her status in general shifts. Then one would need to be vigilant, constantly maintaining an attitude of listening to her, as ordinary woman, which affords a shift in the normative discourse between the genders and that allows for a recognition of her as a subject, as a person to whom one should listen.
Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 16 times in crossword archives (1944–2023).