单词 | geographical tongue |
释义 | > as lemmasgeographical tongue 3. Having or characterized by surface markings or a texture that gives the appearance of a map. Now chiefly Medicine, esp. in geographical tongue. ΚΠ 1876 Schermerhorn's Monthly Jan. 6 The good God made those lines, which look so much like a map, on the turtle's back, and it has its name from them. It is called the geographical turtle. 1885 A. Brassey In Trades 145 One variety..is called the ‘geographical tree’, or sometimes the ‘picture-tree’, because it is said to be always possible to be able to trace in imagination a map or a picture upon the surface of each leaf. 1950 Sci. Monthly Feb. 87/2 The tongue presents a desquamation of the superficial epithelium, giving the appearance of the geographical tongue. 1994 Sunday Mail (Brisbane) 28 Aug. 106/4 I have had a cyclical ulcerated tongue which has been diagnosed as ‘non specific geographical tongue’. 2008 P. Rajiah & A. Shabani Paediatric Radiol. 314 On X-rays, enchondromas are seen as oval or round areas of geographical destruction with a lobulated contour. < as lemmas |
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