Trench mouth

Trench mouth
A progressive painful infection of the mouth and throat with ulceration, swelling and sloughing off of dead tissue from the mouth and throat due to the spread of infection from the gums. Certain germs (including fusiform bacteria and spirochetes) have been thought to be involved, but the full story behind this long-known disease is still not clear. This condition is also called Vincent’s angina after the French physician Henri Vincent (1862-1950). The word “angina” comes from the Latin “angere” meaning “to choke or throttle.” As with most long-known but poorly understood diseases, trench mouth (alias Vincent's angina) goes by many other names including acute necrotizing ulcerative gingivitis (ANUG), acute membranous gingivitis, fusospirochetal gingivitis, fusospirillosis, fusospirochetal gingivitis, fusospirochetal gingivitis, phagedenic gingivitis, ulcerative gingivitis, Vincent’s gingivitis, Vincent’s infection, and Vincent’s stomatitis.

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necrotizing ulcerative gingivitis; so called because it occurred in the troops in the trenches in World War I.

Medical dictionary. 2011.

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  • trench mouth — noun Date: 1918 1. Vincent s angina 2. Vincent s infection …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • trench mouth. — See Vincent s angina. [1915 20; so called from its high incidence among soldiers in the trenches] * * * …   Universalium

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