The lymph tissue on the floor of the oropharyngeal passage, near the root of the tongue. [ http://www.informatics.jax.org/accession/cwg MP:0002385 ]
Synonyms: lingual tonsillar tissue
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Term information
database
cross reference
- SCTID:276957006
- UMLS:C0229871 (ncithesaurus:Lingual_Tonsil)
- NCIT:C32988
- MA:0000773
- FMA:54836
- Wikipedia:Lingual_tonsils
Subsets
pheno_slim
Term relations
Subclass of:
- lateral structure
- tonsil
- part of some posterior part of tongue
- in lateral side of some posterior part of tongue
- part of some tongue
- contributes to morphology of some tonsillar ring