Usually means: Deposit on teeth causing decay.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. plaque: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. plaque: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. plaque: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. plaque: Collins English Dictionary
  5. plaque: Vocabulary.com
  6. Plaque, plaque: Wordnik
  7. plaque: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. plaque: Wiktionary
  9. plaque: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. plaque: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. plaque: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. plaque: Dictionary.com
  13. plaque: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. plaque: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Plaque (dermatology), Plaque (disambiguation), Plaque: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Plaque: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. plaque: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. plaque: Rhymezone
  19. plaque, plaque (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. plaque: Free Dictionary
  21. plaque: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. plaque: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. plaque: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. plaque: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Plaque: Glossary of Health Care Terms
  2. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. plaque: Encyclopedia

Medicine (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Plaque: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. Orthodontic Terms (No longer online)
  4. Plaque (atherosclerotic), Plaque (dental), Plaque (skin): Merck Manuals
  5. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Dental and Oral Health Glossary (No longer online)
  7. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  8. plaque: Prostate Cancer Interactive Glossary
  9. DICTIONARY OF TERMS IN ORAL PHYSIOLOGY (No longer online)
  10. KidsHealth Glossary of Medical Words (No longer online)
  11. Multiple Sclerosis Encyclopaedia (No longer online)
  12. plaque: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  13. Microbial Genetics Glossary (No longer online)
  14. Glossary of HIV/AIDS Related Terms (No longer online)
  15. plaque: Medical dictionary
  16. Oral Health Definitions for Non-Dentists (No longer online)
  17. Vitamin Glossary (No longer online)
  18. Plaque: Drug Medical Dictionary
  19. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Drug Discovery and Development (No longer online)
  2. Plaque: Biology dictionary
  3. AGRICULTURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL BIOTECHNOLOGY (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. plaque: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Plaque: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Washington State Definitions and Abbreviations of Vetrinary Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (countable) Any flat, thin piece of clay, ivory, metal, etc., used for ornament, or for painting pictures upon, as a dish, plate, slab, etc., hung upon a wall; also, a smaller decoration worn by a person, such as a brooch.
noun:  (countable) A piece of flat metal with writing on it, attached to a building, monument, or other structure to remind people of a person or an event.
noun:  (countable) A small card representing an amount of money, used for betting in casinos; a sort of gaming chip.
noun:  (countable, biology) A clearing in a bacterial lawn caused by a virus.
noun:  (countable, music) In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system: any flat, thin musical instrument.
noun:  (countable, pathology) A broad patch of abnormal tissue distinguishable from surrounding tissue, especially a broad papule (“inflamed, irritated patch”) on the skin.
noun:  (countable, uncountable, pathology) An abnormal accumulation of material in or on an organ of the body, often associated with disease.
noun:  (countable, uncountable, pathology) An accumulation in artery walls made up of macrophage cells and debris containing lipids, (cholesterol and fatty acids), calcium, and connective tissue; an atheroma.
noun:  (uncountable, dentistry) An accumulation of biofilm, or bacteria, on teeth, which may develop into dental calculus (tartar).
noun:  (countable, medicine) A deposit of beta-amyloid protein occurring in a nerve cell and associated with Alzheimer's disease.

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