Lingual may refer to:
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Tongue
The tongue is a muscular organ in the mouth of a typical tetrapod. It manipulates food for mastication and swallowing as part of the digestive process, and is the primary organ of taste. The tongue's upper surface (dorsum) is covered by taste ...
, a muscular hydrostat on the floors of the mouths of most vertebrates which manipulates food for mastication
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Lingual, in palaeontology, the side of the teeth that faces the tongue
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Lingual artery
The lingual artery arises from the external carotid artery between the superior thyroid artery and facial artery. It can be located easily in the tongue.
Structure
The lingual artery first branches off from the external carotid artery. It runs ...
arises from the external carotid between the superior thyroid and facial artery
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Lingual veins
The lingual veins begin on the dorsum, sides, and under surface of the tongue, and, passing backward along the course of the lingual artery, end in the internal jugular vein.
The vena comitans of the hypoglossal nerve (ranine vein), a branch of co ...
begin on the dorsum, sides, and under surface of the tongue, and, passing backward along the course of the lingual artery, end in the internal jugular vein
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Lingual gyrus
The lingual gyrus, also known as the ''medial'' occipitotemporal gyrus, is a brain structure that is linked to processing vision, especially related to letters. It is thought to also play a role in analysis of logical conditions (i.e., logical ord ...
of the occipital lobe lies between the calcarine sulcus and the posterior part of the collateral sulcus
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Lingual bone
The hyoid bone (lingual bone or tongue-bone) () is a horseshoe-shaped bone situated in the anterior midline of the neck between the chin and the thyroid cartilage. At rest, it lies between the base of the mandible and the third cervical vertebra. ...
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Lingual nerve
The lingual nerve carries sensory innervation from the anterior two-thirds of the tongue. It contains fibres from both the mandibular division of the trigeminal nerve (CN V3
) and from the facial nerve (CN VII). The fibres from the trigeminal nerv ...
, a branch of the mandibular nerve
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