edentulism

English

Etymology

From Latin ēdentulus + -ism.

Noun

edentulism (uncountable)

1. The condition of lacking some or all teeth; toothlessness.
   • 2015 June 1, Vidhya Jeyapalan, Chitra Shankar Krishnan, “Partial Edentulism and its Correlation to Age, Gender, Socio-economic Status and Incidence of Various Kennedy’s Classes– A Literature Review”, in Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research : JCDR‎^[1], volume 9, →DOI:

     There is no gender correlation for partial edentulism.

Related terms

• edentulous

Translations

toothlessness — see toothlessness

See also

• anodontia