Usually means: Filth, dirt, especially on skin.
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  1. sordes: Collins English Dictionary
  2. sordes: Wordnik
  3. sordes: Wiktionary
  4. sordes: Dictionary.com
  5. Sordes: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. Sordes: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  7. sordes: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  8. Sordes: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. sordes: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  10. sordes: FreeDictionary.org
  11. sordes: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. sordes: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  5. sordes: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (sordes)

▸ noun:  Deposits of dirt or bacteria on the body, discharges; bacterial deposits on the teeth or tongue.

Similar:
plaque, infection, halitosis, periodentosis, diabrosis, pyorrhea, oxalosis, sprue, sand boil, metallosis, more...

Opposite:
cleanliness, purity, hygiene

Adjectives:
dark, black, brown, dry, terge, mucous, thick, tenacious, bloody, offensive, coloured

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Similar:
plaque, infection, halitosis, periodentosis, diabrosis, pyorrhea, oxalosis, sprue, sand boil, metallosis, more...

Opposite:
cleanliness, purity, hygiene

Adjectives:
dark, black, brown, dry, terge, mucous, thick, tenacious, bloody, offensive, coloured



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