Disease or Syndrome
fissured tongue
Subclass of:
Tongue Diseases
Definitions related to fissured tongue:
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(furrowed tongue) Accentuation of the grooves on the dorsal surface of the tongue.Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO)The Human Phenotype Ontology Project, 2021
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(tongue, fissured) The occurrence of of breaks or slits in the tissue of the dorsal surface of the TONGUE.NLM Medical Subject HeadingsU.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
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Fissured tongue is a condition frequently seen in the general population that is characterized by grooves that vary in depth and are noted along the dorsal and lateral aspects of the tongue. Although a definitive etiology is unknown, a polygenic mode of inheritance is suspected because the condition is seen clustering in families who are...WebMD, 2019
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