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subgingival

[suhb-jin-jahy-vuhl, suhb-jin-juh-]

adjective

  1. 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.



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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.

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