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gumboil

NOUN
  1. a boil or abscess on the gums

How To Use gumboil In A Sentence

  • The roasted fruit is emollient and used as a poultice in the treatment of gumboils, dental abscesses etc.
  • Because of risk of blood poisoning, consult your doctor if there is no improvement in 12 hours if a gumboil bursts, or if abscess seems to be enlarging rapidly; antibiotics may be prescribed to prevent infection spreading.
  • 'Toothache,' growled Topsy, in reply, 'not gumboil;' the remedy suggested by Mrs Pulchop being for the latter of these ills. Madame Midas
  • Listen to the doctor," Pearl commanded sternly, "or he'll raise a gumboil on ye. Sowing Seeds in Danny
  • Listen to the doctor," Pearl commanded sternly, "or he 'll raise a gumboil on ye. Sowing Seeds in Danny
  • They are very effective in mouth ulcers, gumboils and in pyorrohea.
  • A drink made by infusion of the bark in hot water is thought to have a tonic effect on the liver when it is afflicted by cold, and rinsing the mouth with this liquid is thought to heal gumboils, strengthen the gums, and ease toothache.
  • Dulcie Lewis, an expert in old English folk cures, says: ‘Oil of cloves has always been applied to the gums for toothache or gumboils.’
  • I get these gumboils if I eat any amount of wheat at all.
  • The bark, rubbed up in rice-water mixed with cumin-seed, is a cure for gumboils and toothache.
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