Lingual tonsils
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Overview
| Lingual tonsils | |
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| Tongue | |
| Latin | tonsilla lingualis |
| Gray's | subject #243 1138 |
| Dorlands/Elsevier | t_13/12812439 |
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The lingual tonsils are rounded masses of lymphatic tissue that cover the posterior region of the tongue.
They are on the dorsal surface at the base of the tongue.
Additional images
 Lingual tonsils not labeled, but would be at very back of tongue. |
 Lymphatics of the tongue. |
External links
- Lingual+tonsil at eMedicine Dictionary
- Pictures at usc.edu
- Anatomy Atlases - Microscopic Anatomy, plate 09.163
- Histology at BU 09802loa
- MedEd at Loyola histo/HistoImages/hl6-27.jpg (labeled as 'lymphoid tissue')]
- Diagram at healthopedia.com
- Diagram at enotes.com
This article was originally based on an entry from a public domain edition of Gray's Anatomy. As such, some of the information contained herein may be outdated. Please edit the article if this is the case, and feel free to remove this notice when it is no longer relevant.
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Some of the initial content on this page may be incorporated in part from copyleft sources in the public domain including wikis such as Wikipedia and AskDrWiki. Drug information for patients came from the The National Library of Medicine. Infectious disease information may have come from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). Differential Diagnoses are drawn from clinicians as well as an amalgamation of 3 sources: 1.The Disease Database; 2. Kahan, Scott, Smith, Ellen G. In A Page: Signs and Symptoms. Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishing, 2004:3; 3. Sailer, Christian, Wasner, Susanne. Differential Diagnosis Pocket. Hermosa Beach, CA: Borm Bruckmeir Publishing LLC, 2002:7 .
