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Definition of Ranula
1. Noun. A cyst on the underside of the tongue.
Definition of Ranula
1. n. A cyst formed under the tongue by obstruction of the duct of the submaxillary gland.
Definition of Ranula
1. Noun. A small cyst on the floor of the mouth, under the tongue, which is associated with an obstruction of the major salivary gland. ¹
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Definition of Ranula
1. a cyst formed under the tongue [n -S] : RANULAR [adj]
Medical Definition of Ranula
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Ranula
Literary usage of Ranula
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Dublin Journal of Medical Science (1890)
"A Rare Case of the Congenital Form of ranula.* By D. EDGAR FLINX, FRCSI; Examiner
in Sanitary Science, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland ; Surgeon, ..."
2. The Principles and practice of surgery by Frank Hastings Hamilton (1879)
"Moreover, it is this form of ranula which i« most likely to be confounded with
simple serous cysts developed in the substance of the gland, ..."
3. A Treatise on the diseases and surgery of the mouth, jaws and associate parts by James Edmund Garretson (1869)
"A ranula is the analogue of the sebaceous tumor, being simply a collection, the
result of the ... I have seen a ranula which filled the whole oral cavity; ..."
4. The Surgical treatment of the diseases of infancy and childhood by Timothy Holmes (1869)
"ranula is a disease which is seen very frequently in ranula. children, ...
There are two varieties of ranula, the sublingual and sub- maxillary. ..."
5. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1889)
"M. Traumatic ranula.—Dr. WF French, of Noroton, Conn., describes a case of ranula
caused in a very unusual manner. A boy of eleven, whilst eating a very ..."
6. Surgical After-treatment by Le Roi Goddard Crandon, Albert Ehrenfried (1912)
"ranula "In operating for the relief of ranula the object to be attained is either
... By applying a large-sized silk suture transversely across the ranula, ..."
7. Outlines of surgical diagnosis by George Husband Baird Macleod (1864)
"ranula grows slowly (rarely quickly), is indolent, and attracts at first little
... By carefully examining the surface of a ranula, the opening of Wharton's ..."
8. Transactions of the Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland by Academy of Medicine in Ireland (1890)
"IN a paper read before the Moscow Medical Society by Dr. N. Muller, on " ranula
in Newborn Children," he states that in the Foundling Hospital at Moscow ..."
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