"phossy jaw" meaning in English

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          "word": "bisphossy jaw"
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          "ref": "2005, Jennifer Worth, Shadows of the Workhouse, Weidenfeld & Nicholson (2009), page 143",
          "text": "We thought she would escape phossy jaw. But it got her, yes, it got her, and she died a terrible death.",
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        "A disease resulting from exposure to white phosphorus causing degeneration of the teeth and jaw."
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          "word": "osteonecrosis of the jaw"
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          "word": "osteochemonecrosis"
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          "word": "osteonecrosis"
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          "word": "phosphorus necrosis of the jaw"
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