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    VINCENT'S INFECTION

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    An acute communicable infection of the respiratory tract and mouth marked by ulceration of the mucous membraneplay

    Synonyms:

    trench mouth; Vincent's angina; Vincent's infection

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

    Hypernyms ("Vincent's infection" 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)

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