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dry socket

American  

noun

Dentistry.
  1. a painful inflammatory infection of the bone and tissues at the site of an extracted tooth.


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The day after I had it out, I got a thing called dry socket, and that was four weeks of hell.

From The Guardian • Dec. 8, 2018

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