edentulous
- adjective
- /ɪˈdɛntjələs/
- Specialized
:
edentado
- Oral examination revealed that the mouth opening was adequate and that the patient was edentulous.
- edentulous patients
Examples
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The full-face mask may be more effective because it eliminates mouth leaks, but because of greater surface contact, leaks can occur around the contact between the mask and the face, especially in edentulous patients.
Academic text (2007) -
Wave 1 demonstrated that people aged 50 and over were more likely to be edentulous in India than in China 7, 8.
Academic text (2018) -
Dental implants are an ideal solution for the loss of a single tooth, several teeth, or the total edentulous.
Blog text (32) -
If you create a pathologic fracture, are you going to plate it, because the standard of care management of the edentulous mandible fracture is trans-facial rigid fixation?
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Many elderly individuals become edentulous as they age and lose their natural teeth.
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The dentist explained that the patient was edentulous, which means he had lost all his teeth due to gum disease.
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Eating can be challenging for an edentulous person, so it's important to consider softer food options.
Synonyms
Having few or no teeth
Having few or no teeth
Having few or no teeth
Antonyms
How Toothless
- Specialized
- Specialized
Surface Forms
Morphology
edentulous = edentate (semi-transparent) = e + dent + ulous
The suffix '-ulous' indicates a state or condition, but its use is less common, making the full meaning less immediately clear.
Etymology
Edentulous comes from Latin parts e- meaning 'without' and dent from dens meaning 'tooth', as in dentist and dental. So, edentulous simply means 'without teeth' or 'toothless'.