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, volume 9, →DOI:
      There is no gender correlation for partial edentulism.

Translations
toothlessness — see toothlessness

See also
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