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hypoglottis, hypoglossis|hɪpəʊ-, haɪpəʊˈglɒtɪs, -ˈglɒsɪs| [a. Gr. ὑπογλωττίς, -γλωσσίς a swelling under the tongue, etc., f. γλῶττα, γλῶσσα tongue.] 1. Anat. and Med. (See quot.)
1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Hypoglossis, or Hypoglottis, a little piece of Flesh that joyns the Tongue to the nether part of the Mouth: Also an Inflammation or Ulcer under the Tongue;..also a Medicine proper to lie and dissolve under the Tongue, to take away Roughness in the Throat. 1886in Syd. Soc. Lex. 2. Entom. A sclerite occasionally present between the mentum and labium of certain Coleoptera, as in clavicorn and serricorn beetles. Hence † hypogloˈttidian a. = hypoglottian.
1657Tomlinson Renou's Disp. 173 Pastilles..called..from the manner of their use Hypoglottidian. |