VINCENT'S INFECTION

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("Vincent's infection" 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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