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Preferred term

Ranula  

Type

  • mesh:Descriptor

Definition

  • A form of retention cyst of the floor of the mouth, usually due to obstruction of the ducts of the submaxillary or sublingual glands, presenting a slowly enlarging painless deep burrowing mucocele of one side of the mouth. It is also called sublingual cyst and sublingual ptyalocele.

Broader concept

In other languages

  • French

  • Grenouillette sublinguale
  • Ranule
  • Sialocèle sublingual

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JVR-FNHMZ2ZL-L

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