(a.) Destitute or deprived of the faculty of speech.
(a.) Not speaking for a time; dumb; mute; silent.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Oh my goodness I am truly speechless,” Aduba told Good Morning America .
(2) Axel Schäfer, European affairs spokesman for the Social Democratic party (SPD), said: “Like many other politicians in Germany I am speechless at what stupidity nationalism can trigger in seemingly intelligent people.
(3) During three month periods, the patient progressively became somnolent, speechless and immobile.
(4) Stewart Regan, SFA chief executive "I am speechless at the news of Gary Speed's death.
(5) To provide a luxurious pension was never the aim of the state pension.” When I relay his comments to Dr Ros Altmann, who worked on pensions policy with the No 10 policy unit, is the UK government’s former older workers champion and a governor of the Pensions Policy Institute, she is left briefly speechless.
(6) The cutting of mobile libraries leaves me speechless.
(7) The x-rays, scans, medication, food, cleaning staff, porters that have been given to me because I’m British leave me speechless.
(8) Of course I agreed, but I frequently find myself left speechless when observing countries with the fewest resources revealing some of the best social work practices.
(9) The actress was rendered speechless by the second win – one of the more unexpected of the night.
(10) Five months after head injury, when he was first admitted to us, he was stable with signs of oligokinesia, katatonic posture, speechlessness, rigid muscle tones and positive cog-wheel phenomenon.
(11) Mick Fett, who helped organise the event, said the film had left him speechless.
(12) The patient was observed immediately upon admission to the hospital, and he was noted from the outset to have wakeful speechlessness.
(13) As I look back at all the developments to date, I’m simply speechless,” he said.
(14) BBC host Graham Norton was left speechless by a particularly risque display from Poland's entry Donatan and Cleo.
(15) The speechless patient presents a unique challenge to the clinician working with neurologically impaired adults.
(16) For this laryngectomee, the VoiceBak is truly speech for the speechless.
(17) Tottenham Hotspur’s Dele Alli says he was left “speechless” by his maiden England call-up , just five months after playing in League One.
(18) When it was revealed that she had made it to next week’s final, Birtwhistle said: “I am speechless.
(19) Patients may be rendered speechless because of many conditions, including cancer surgery, stroke, cerebral palsy, cervical cord and head trauma, neuromuscular paralysis, and intubation for respiratory failure.
(20) American Indian sign, used as a gestural communication system for the speechless, served the daily life needs of patients with a variety of deficits, many with unfavorable prognosis for oral speech rehabilitation.
Tongueless
Definition:
(a.) Having no tongue.
(a.) Hence, speechless; mute.
(a.) Unnamed; not spoken of.
Example Sentences:
(1) Using autoradiography, substantial and comparable concentrations of labeled molecules were detected in the mouths, VNO ducts, and VNOs of normal subjects in both conditions, as well as tongueless lizards whose snouts made physical contact with swabs.
(2) Temporary blind and anosmic conditions did not have a significant effect on response rates of the tongueless or control groups.
(3) Feeding, as well as responses to prey extracts, were found to be suppressed almost totally in the tongueless naive snakes.
(4) No label was evident in VNOs of tongueless animals that did not contact swabs or normal animals with sealed VN ducts.
(5) To test this hypothesis, a cotton swab soaked in prey extract mixed with [3H]proline was touched ten times to the snouts of normal and tongueless lizards (Chalcides ocellatus), as well as normal lizards whose vomeronasal organ (VNO) ducts had been sealed with a tissue adhesive.
(6) Additionally, such a swab was held approximately 0.5 cm in front of the snout of normal and tongueless lizards for 1 min, which allowed no contact by tongueless animals and tongue contact only by normal lizards.