plaque
- Noun. Any flat, thin piece of metal, clay, ivory, or the like, used for ornament, or for painting pictures upon, as a slab, plate, dish, or the like, hung upon a wall; also, a smaller decoration worn on the person, as a brooch.
- Noun. (uncountable) An accumulation of biofilm, or bacteria on teeth.
- Noun. (uncountable, medicine) Atheroma, an accumulation in artery walls made up of macrophage cells and debris containing lipids, (cholesterol and fatty acids), calcium, and connective tissue.
- Noun. (biology) A clearing in a bacterial lawn caused by a virus.
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