See Also: dorsal lingual branches of lingual artery(medicine)
lingual(dictionary)
lingual bar(medicine)
Lingual(medicine)
lingual gyrus(medicine)
lingual hemiatrophy(medicine)
lingual goiter(medicine)
lingual lobe(medicine)
lingual gingiva(medicine)
lingual frenulum(medicine)

lingual (iou)



lingual adjective & noun. LME.
[medieval Latin lingualis, formed as LINGUA + -AL1.]
A. adjective.
Tongue-shaped. Only in LME.
Chiefly Anatomy & Zoology. Of, pertaining to, or involving the tongue or a tonguelike part; situated on or towards the tongue. M17.
lingual nerve a sensory nerve (a branch of the fifth cranial nerve) supplying the tongue. lingual ribbon the odontophore of a mollusc.
Phonetics. Of a sound: formed by the tongue. M17.
Pertaining to the tongue as the organ of speech; pertaining to language or languages. L18.
b. noun.
Phonetics. A lingual sound. M17.
Anatomy. The lingual nerve. L19.
lingualize verb trans. make lingual L19.
lingually adverb (Anatomy) towards the tongue L19.