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  2. Fissured tongue - Wikipedia

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    Fissured tongue is a benign condition characterized by deep grooves in the dorsum of the tongue. Although these grooves may look unsettling, the condition is usually painless. Although these grooves may look unsettling, the condition is usually painless.

  3. List of skin conditions - Wikipedia

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    Fissured tongue (furrowed tongue, lingua plicata, plicated tongue, scrotal tongue) Geographic tongue (benign migratory glossitis, benign migratory stomatitis, glossitis areata exfoliativa, glossitis areata migrans, lingua geographica, stomatitis areata migrans, transitory benign plaques of the tongue) Gingival fibroma; Gingival hypertrophy

  4. Mouth assessment - Wikipedia

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    The sides of the tongue are inspected with a gloved hand holding a piece of gauze. The tongue is moved side to side and inspected; it should be pink, moist, smooth and glistening. Assessment of the ventral (bottom) surface of the tongue is done by having the patient touch the tip of their tongue against the roof of their mouth.

  5. Melkersson–Rosenthal syndrome - Wikipedia

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    Melkersson–Rosenthal syndrome is a rare neurological disorder characterized by recurring facial paralysis, swelling of the face and lips (usually the upper lip: cheilitis granulomatosis) and the development of folds and furrows in the tongue (fissured tongue). [2]: 799 Onset is in childhood or early adolescence.

  6. Talk:Fissured tongue - Wikipedia

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    "scrotal tongue" is synonymous with "fissured tongue" (lingua plicata). The tongue is said to resemble a scrotum in this condition. Personally, I would say that the term fissured tongue is in greatest use, the others less so. tepi ( talk ) 20:11, 2 September 2012 (UTC) [ reply ]

  7. Plicata - Wikipedia

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    Plicata, plicate, plicated, pleated or folded in Latin, may refer to: . Lingua plicata, a benign condition characterized by deep grooves in the dorsum of the tongue; Pars plicata, the folded and most anterior portion of the ciliary body, which in turn is part of the uvea, choroidea, one of the three layers that comprise the eye

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  9. List of medical roots, suffixes and prefixes - Wikipedia

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    of or pertaining to the tongue: Greek γλῶσσα, γλῶττα (glôssa, glôtta), tongue glossology: gluco-sweet Greek γλυκύς (glukús), sweet glucocorticoid, glucose glyc-sugar: Greek γλυκύς (glukús), sweet glycolysis: gnath-of or pertaining to the jaw Greek γνάθος (gnáthos), jaw gnathodynamometer-gnosis: knowledge