Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The proper muscle of the tongue; the muscular substance of the tongue which is not definitively attached to surrounding bony parts.

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Examples

  • —The cortical branches are: the anterior temporal, distributed to the uncus and the anterior part of the fusiform gyrus; the posterior temporal, to the fusiform and the inferior temporal gyri; the calcarine, to the cuneus and gyrus lingualis and the back part of the convex surface of the occipital lobe; and the parietoöccipital, to the cuneus and the precuneus.

    VI. The Arteries. 4. The Arteries of the Upper Extremity. a. The Subclavian Artery 1918

  • The Lingual Nerve (n. lingualis) supplies the mucous membrane of the anterior two-thirds of the tongue.

    IX. Neurology. 5e. The Trigeminal Nerve 1918

  • -- Muscles of the Right Side of the Tongue of Man. 1, stylo-glossus; 2, stylo-hyoid: 3, stylo-pharyngeus; 4, hyo-glossus; 5, genio-hyoid; 6, genio-glossus; 7, lingualis. between different ages and conditions of one and the same species.

    The Common Frog 1874

  • The lingual artery (a. lingualis) (Fig. 513) arises from the external carotid between the superior thyroid and external maxillary; it first runs obliquely upward and medialward to the greater cornu of the hyoid bone; it then curves downward and forward, forming a loop which is crossed by the hypoglossal nerve, and passing beneath the Digastricus and Stylohyoideus it runs horizontally forward, beneath the Hyoglossus, and finally, ascending almost perpendicularly to the tongue, turns forward on its lower surface as far as the tip, under the name of the profunda linguæ.

    VI. The Arteries. 3a. 2. The External Carotid Artery 1918

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