What is the definition or description of: gums?

Gums or gingiva: The soft, pink tissue around your teeth. In a healthy mouth, it is tightly bound to the underlying bone and teeth.

Gingiva: It's the tissue that covers the bone of your jaws. Here is a website for some further information: http://en.Wikipedia.Org/wiki/gingiva.

Webster Def: Accourding to the merriam-webster dictionary: : the (soft) tissue that surrounds the necks of teeth and covers the alveolar parts of the jaws; broadly : the alveolar portion of a jaw with its enveloping soft tissues.

Periodontium: The periodontal tissues surrounding the teeth and covering the alveolar bone of the maxilla and mandible.

Tissue around teeth: The technical name is gingiva. This is the tissue immediately surrounding the teeth.

Gingiva: Gum are the pink soft tissue that forms a collar around our teeth, that collar acts as a gasket of sorts that protects the tooth roots and the bone that support our teeth, .