Definition of Epiglottic

1. a. Pertaining to, or connected with, the epiglottis.

Definition of Epiglottic

1. Adjective. (anatomy) Pertaining to, or connected with, the epiglottis. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Epiglottic

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Epiglottic

1. Pertaining to, or connected with, the epiglottis. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Epiglottic

epigenetic change
epigenetically
epigenetics
epigenic
epigenist
epigenists
epigenome
epigenomes
epigenomic
epigenomics
epigenotype
epigenotypes
epigenous
epigeous
epiglottal
epiglottic (current term)
epiglottic cartilage
epiglottic folds
epiglottic tubercle
epiglottic vallecula
epiglottidean
epiglottidectomy
epiglottides
epiglottiditis
epiglottis
epiglottises
epiglottitis
epiglycanin
epignathous
epignathus

Literary usage of Epiglottic

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

1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1908)
"Angioma of the Face, Mouth, Tonsil, and Rhino-epiglottic Fold.— NAVRATIL (Arch, inter, de laryng., d'otol., et de rhin., March-April, 1908) reports a case. ..."

2. An American Text-book of Diseases of the Eye, Ear, Nose, and Throat by George Edmund De Schweinitz, Burton Alexander Randall (1899)
"We should note the region of the circumvallate papillae and the glosso-epiglottic fossa, which should normally be free and rather smooth. ..."

3. The Sanitarian by Medico-Legal Society of New York (1903)
"They spread themselves with extreme abundance over the mucous membrane of the ary-epiglottic folds. They cover, also, all the surface of the epiglottis, ..."

4. An Elementary Treatise on Human Anatomy by Joseph Leidy (1889)
"attached to the upper internal border of the hyoid bone and is thence reflected to the anterior surface of the epiglottic cartilage. ..."

5. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1902)
"of the epiglottis, and thence had spread downwards to the ary- epiglottic folds. A study of these cases, and the knowledge derived from the injection ..."

6. Manual of Practical Anatomy by Daniel John Cunningham (1921)
"epiglottic Ligaments. — The epiglottis is bound by ligaments to the base of ... The glosso-epiglottic fold and the two pharyngo-epiglottic folds have been ..."

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