(n.) The tongue, or lingua, of an insect. See Hymenoptera.
Example Sentences:
(1) • +30 2424 0 34 073, hotelselenunda.com , €490, no breakfast Where to eat: Steki tou Masteras Every Greek holiday should include a good local grill house, and this one, 3km from Loutraki in the town of Glossa, is one of the best.
(2) In Gobius fluviatilis (Pallas), Gobius (Proterorhinus) marmoratus (Pallas), glossa Platichthys flesus (L) the cornea is double and there is an iridescent layer.
(3) Two beautiful beaches, and an impressively sited church, are at Agios Ioannis, reached by a winding road that starts just outside Glossa.
(4) A total of 945 non-related individuals from four isolated population groups from the Northern Aegean Sea (Greece)--Alonissos, Oxilithos, Skopelos, and Glossa, has been typed for 16 polymorphic systems of the blood, namely A1A2B0, MNS., Rhesus (C, c, Cw, D, E, e), Kell, Duffy (a,b), Kidd (a); Hp, Tf subtypes, Gc, Gm (1, 2, 3, 5, 13), Km (1); aP, AK, PGM1, EsD, and 6-PGD.
(5) Sprawling over a hillside next door is the island's second town, Glossa, which has barely altered in response to tourism.
(6) In the cornea of fishes either epithelial or endothelial basal membrane (Gobiidae, Syngnathus nigrolineatus) or a wide electron opaque epithelial membrane (Blennius tentacularis) or else, besides this, the Bowmen membrane (glossa) can be formed.
Glossal
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the tongue; lingual.
Example Sentences:
(1) From our experience we conclude that these cysts are adequately treated by complete surgical excision through a sagittal glossal split.
(2) The glossal sounds, based on palato-lingual contact (lingogram), were useful to evaluate function of the respective parts of the tongue.
(3) A primary glossal squamous-cell carcinoma was diagnosed in an adult Spanish Cochin hen.
(4) Neither the association between glossal central papillary atrophy and denture stomatitis nor the association between glossal central papillary atrophy and denture use was statistically significant.
(5) Five patients representing different categories of glossal resection were fitted with prostheses specifically designed to improve speech.
(6) Each strain produced a uniformly muld upper respiratory tract disease, with glossal ulceration being the most prominent clinical sign.
(7) A retrospective study of the epidemiologic data of 4,417 subjects has been undertaken to study the possibility of a link existing between glossal central papillary atrophy (median rhomboid glossitis) and denture stomatitis.
(8) Lingual tonsillitis can cause various signs and symptoms including nocturnal or supine cough, constant discomfort in the throat, glossal pain, and otalgia.
(9) Atypical but not definitely malignant epithelium was detected by cytology, although the gross appearance of the glossal lesion looked like early invasive squamous cell carcinoma.
(10) Tracer-dose toxicities included reversible glossal edema in one patient, grade 3 hepatic transaminasemia in another, and early drops in both circulating B and T cells (with decreases in B cells more pronounced) in nearly all patients.
(11) Glossal abscess is a rare clinical entity that may result in airway compromise and disseminated infection to other systems.
(12) It is postulated that paralysis of glossal muscles occurred prior to diaphragmatic paralysis, creating upper airway obstruction while preserving inspiratory muscle activity.
(13) Two of these had particularly low scores for the glossal sounds produced with the rear part of the tongue, and this suggested the necessity for suspension slings to prevent depression of the reconstructed tongue and the floor of the mouth.
(14) Candida albicans yeast forms were topically applied to the middorsal glossal mucosa of five healthy pigs, immediately after killing.
(15) Physical examination also revealed glossal paralysis, reduction of the swallowing reflex, reduction of the pupillary light response, and generalized lymphadenopathy.
(16) Glossal double fissures were found in a similar proportion of both pre- and post-natal tongue specimens.
(17) A paraneoplastic neurological syndrome characterized by visual changes, glossal spasm and dysphagia associated with an invasive high grade transitional cell carcinoma of the bladder is reported.
(18) Histologically, there is a loss of glossal papillae, hyperkeratosis, acanthosis and the formation of large drop-shaped rete pegs with central clefting and occasional parakeratotic plugging.
(19) Culture of the aspirate subsequently grew Hemophilus parainfluenzae, the first such reported case of this pathogen in a glossal abscess.
(20) Nine of 25 (36%) oropharyngeal squamous carcinomas contained HPV DNA sequences, including four of 10 (40%) laryngeal, three of eight (38%) buccal, and two of seven (29%) glossal tumors.