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dry socket

a tooth socket in which the blood clot either has broken down after extraction of a tooth or has never formed, resulting in delayed and very painful healing

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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