subgingival

[ suhb-jin-jahy-vuhl, suhb-jin-juh- ]

adjective

1. being or occurring under the gums; especially, being or occurring in the crevice between the gum margin and the neck or root of a tooth.

Word History and Origins

Origin of subgingival¹

sub- + gingival

Example Sentences

Middlecoff, whom golf writer Herbert Warren Wind referred to as “a happy refugee from subgingival curettage,” won the first four holes.

From Golf Digest