Definition
Acute necrotizing ulcerative gingivitis, a severe bacterial infection of the gums, typically characterized by inflammation, bleeding, deep ulceration, necrotized tissue, pain, fever, enlarged lymph nodes, fatigue, and halitosis.
Origins
Probably coined during World War I when the disease was common among soldiers in the trenches during trench warfare.
In Context
- ""Trench mouth" is one of the war diseases which is engaging the attention of British army doctors."
- "Vincent's angina (or trench mouth) is a distinct form of ulcerative gingivitis."
Also Said As
- acute membranous gingivitis
- acute ulcerative gingivitis
- fusospirillosis
- fusospirochetal gingivitis
- phagedenic gingivitis
- ulcerative gingivitis
- Plaut-Vincent angina
- Vincent's angina
- Vincent's infection
- Vincent's stomatitis
See Also
- trench foot