Definition of Tongue tie

1. Noun. A congenital anomaly in which the mucous membrane under the tongue is too short limiting the mobility of the tongue.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Tongue Tie

tongue depressor
tongue depressors
tongue fern
tongue flap
tongue habits
tongue kiss
tongue kisses
tongue lashing
tongue lashings
tongue map
tongue of cerebellum
tongue phenomenon
tongue ring
tongue rings
tongue thrust
tongue tie (current term)
tongue twister
tongue twisters
tongue worm
tongued
tonguedness
tonguefish
tongueflower
tongueless

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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