sordes

/ (ˈsɔːdiːz) /

med dark incrustations on the lips and teeth of patients with prolonged fever

Word Origin for sordes

C18: from Latin sordēs filth

Again, the tongue may be covered with brown crusts and the teeth with sordes.

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Sordes collect about the teeth and lips, and the surface exhales a peculiar odor.

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His tongue becomes dry, hard, and fissured; sordes collect upon the teeth and lips, bloody crusts about the nostrils.

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The lips and teeth are in bad cases encrusted with sordes, and the former are dry and cracked, and bleed readily when picked.

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These brown crusts and sordes are usually seen in advanced cases, following the first condition described.

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sordes

[ sôr′dēz ]

A dark brown or blackish crustlike deposit on the lips, teeth, and gums of a person with dehydration resulting from a chronic debilitating disease.