subgingival

American

[suhb-jin-jahy-vuhl, suhb-jin-juh-] / ˌsʌb dʒɪnˈdʒaɪ vəl, sʌbˈdʒɪn dʒə- /

adjective

being or occurring under the gums; especially, being or occurring in the crevice between the gum margin and the neck or root of a tooth.

Etymology

Origin of subgingival

Example Sentences

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Middlecoff, whom golf writer Herbert Warren Wind referred to as “a happy refugee from subgingival curettage,” won the first four holes.

From Golf Digest

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