Usually means: Decay of teeth; dental cavities.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. carious: Merriam-Webster
  2. carious: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. carious: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. carious: Collins English Dictionary
  5. carious: Vocabulary.com
  6. carious: Wordnik
  7. carious: Wiktionary
  8. carious: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. carious: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. carious: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. carious: Dictionary.com
  12. Carious: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. carious: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. carious: Rhymezone
  15. Carious: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. carious: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. carious: FreeDictionary.org
  18. carious: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  19. carious: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. Carious: The Word Detective
  21. carious: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. carious: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. carious: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (carious)

▸ adjective:  Having caries (bone or tooth decay); decayed, rotten.

Similar:
unhealthy, decayed, worm-eaten, cankerous, dozy, rotten, rottenish, rotted, maggoted, corrupt, more...

Opposite:
healthy, sound, intact, unblemished

Types:
Ford, Chevy, Dodge, Toyota, Honda, Nissan, Mazda, Subaru, Kia, more...

Phrases:
carious lesion, carious dentin, carious pulp exposure, residual carious dentin, more...

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Similar:
unhealthy, decayed, worm-eaten, cankerous, dozy, rotten, rottenish, rotted, maggoted, corrupt, more...

Opposite:
healthy, sound, intact, unblemished

Types:
Ford, Chevy, Dodge, Toyota, Honda, Nissan, Mazda, Subaru, Kia, more...

Phrases:
carious lesion, carious dentin, carious pulp exposure, residual carious dentin, more...



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