Word Meanings - PERIODONTAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Surrounding the teeth.

Related words: (words related to PERIODONTAL)

• SURROUNDING
  Inclosing; encircling.
• TEETH
  pl. of Tooth.
• SURROUND
  To inclose, as a body of troops, between hostile forces, so as to cut off means of communication or retreat; to invest, as a city. Syn. -- To encompass; encircle; environ; invest; hem in; fence about. (more info) L. super over + undare to rise
• TEETHING
  The process of the first growth of teeth, or the phenomena attending their issue through the gums; dentition.