Term: periodontal disease: a disease that attacks the gum and bone and around the teeth
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Candidate hypernym: simplification: elimination of superfluous details → 0
Candidate hypernym: living space: space sought for occupation by a nation whose population is expanding → 0
Candidate hypernym: visible spectrum: the distribution of colors produced when light is dispersed by a prism → 0
Candidate hypernym: continent: one of the large landmasses of the earth → 0
Candidate hypernym: eubacteriales: one of two usually recognized orders of true bacteria; Gram-positive spherical or rod-shaped forms; some are motile; in some classifications considered an order of Schizomycetes → 0
Candidate hypernym: alpha receptor: receptors postulated to exist on nerve cell membranes of the sympathetic nervous system in order to explain the specificity of certain agents that affect only some sympathetic activities (such as vasoconstriction and relaxation of intestinal muscles and contraction of smooth muscles) → 0
Candidate hypernym: fifteen: the cardinal number that is the sum of fourteen and one → 0
Candidate hypernym: carillonneur: a musician who plays a carillon → 0
Candidate hypernym: latin: a person who is a member of those peoples whose languages derived from Latin → 0
Candidate hypernym: clinopodium: wild basil → 0