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bruxism
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bruxism [′brək‚siz·əm]
(medicine)
A clenching and grinding of the teeth that occurs unconsciously while the individual is awake or sleeping.
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There was much grinding of teeth and yelling out of open windows into the streets in March when executives with AIG said that one of the reasons they intended to pay $165 million in retention payments to members of their financial products division was because they had signed contracts to do that very thing.
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