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- noun medicine The
abnormal downward displacement orretraction of thetongue .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun abnormal downward or back placement of the tongue
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The infant had mandibular hypoplasia and glossoptosis.
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