parulis
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parulis (plural parulides)
- Synonym of gumboil
- 1858 April, Jourdain, “Fungous Epulis, with caries of the lower jaw, cured by cauterization”, in American Journal of Dental Science, volume 8, page 213:
- This tooth had occasioned several fluxions, terminated by parulis, which opened sometimes spontaneously, and sometimes by the aid of cataplasms and emolient gargles; but, as the tooth had not been removed, the parulides remained fistulous […]