Definition of Tongue-tie

1. Verb. Deprive of speech. "When he met his idol, the young man was tongue-tied"

Generic synonyms: Deprive

Medical Definition of Tongue-tie

1. Impeded motion of the tongue because of the shortness of the fraenum, or of the adhesion of its margins to the gums. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tongue-tie

tongue-boring
tongue-clacker
tongue-fish
tongue-flower
tongue-in-cheek
tongue-in-chic
tongue-lash
tongue-lashing
tongue-lashings
tongue-pad
tongue-pads
tongue-shaped
tongue-shell
tongue-shells
tongue-swallowing
tongue-tie (current term)
tongue-tied
tongue-twister
tongue-twisters
tongue and groove
tongue and groove joint
tongue bone
tongue clacker
tongue clackers
tongue clacking
tongue crib
tongue depressor
tongue depressors
tongue fern
tongue flap

Literary usage of Tongue-tie

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise on the physical and medical treatment of children by William Dewees (1858)
"... covered with a scab, and especially if this be attended with itching, the tar ointment should be immediately substituted. CHAPTER XIV. OF tongue-tie. ..."

2. A Practical Treatise on the Diseases of Children by David Francis Condie (1868)
"—Tongue-Tie. Physicians are frequently called upon to relieve, by an incision, the tied tongue of infants; an accident supposed to be produced by a ..."

3. The Diseases of children, medical and surgical: Medical and Surgical by Henry Ashby, George Arthur Wright (1889)
"A common deformity, though not nearly so common as it is popularly supposed to be, is tongue-tie or congenital shortness of the ..."

4. A Practical treatise on the diseases of children by David Francis Condie (1858)
"This patient has been under the care of Sir P. Crampton, up to the present period, and he states that no such infirmity exists. 3.—Tongue-Tie. ..."

5. Treatment of the diseases of children by Charles Gilmore Kerley (1907)
"tongue-tie tongue-tie is a condition caused by the extension of the frenum forward, nearly if not quite to the tip of the tongue. ..."

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