Usually means: Painful complication after tooth extraction.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. dry socket: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  2. dry socket: Vocabulary.com
  3. dry socket: Wiktionary
  4. dry socket: Infoplease Dictionary
  5. dry socket: Dictionary.com
  6. Dry socket: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. dry socket: Rhymezone
  8. dry socket: FreeDictionary.org
  9. dry socket: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. dry socket: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Dry socket: Glossary of Health Care Terms

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dry socket: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. dry socket: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Dry socket: Merck Manuals
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. dry socket: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dry socket: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See dry_sockets as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (dry socket)

noun:  (dentistry) An inflammation, usually acutely painful, of the alveolar bone following extraction of a tooth.

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