anodontian.
Med.
Congenital absence of some teeth.
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1880 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Anodontia..,an anomaly occasionally observed in man, in which no teeth are developed.
1939 Amer. Jrnl. Orthodontics 25 69 Partial anodontia..means lack of one or more teeth.
1957 H. H. Bloomer in L. E. Travis Handbk. Speech Path. xxi. 640 Other useful terms..include..anodontia (congenital absence of teeth).
1965 L. B. Arey Developmental Anat. (ed. 7) xiii. 225 Anodontia designates a congenital absence of teeth; its mildest expression is the agenesis of a single tooth like the third molar.
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