TRENCH MOUTH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does trench mouth mean? 

• TRENCH MOUTH (noun)
  The noun TRENCH MOUTH has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: TRENCH MOUTH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRENCH MOUTH (noun)

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 ("trench mouth" 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)