Crossword-Solution: SUBLINGUAL
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Sublingual | a. | Situated under the tongue; as, the sublingual gland. |
| Sublingual | a. | Of or pertaining to the sublingual gland; as, sublingual salvia. |
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| Clue | Answers |
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| BENEATH the tongue | 1 answer |
| NONPARENTERAL medication route | 3 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
Pertaining to, or situated near, the back, or dorsum, of an
animal or of one of its parts; notal; tergal; neural; as, the dorsal
fin of a fish; the dorsal artery of the tongue; -- opposed to ventral.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with SUBLINGUAL (5)
The man's sublingual cursing increased audibly as he tromped into the bathroom and found find no trace of the cat in the bathtub, behind the toilet, in the sink, or under the sink.
This is a thin, colorless, frothy, slightly alkaline liquid, secreted [Footnote: By secretion is meant merely a separation or picking out from the blood.] by the mucous membrane lining the mouth, and by three pairs of salivary glands (parotid, submaxillary, and sublingual) opening into the mouth through ducts, or tubes.
The sublingual glands wear an evident character of inflammation; but it never equals the increased discharge that accompanies epilepsy, or nausea.
Dissection, however, has not proved this; and the seat of the disease, when the swellings are first discovered, is chiefly the cellular tissue between the integument and the lateral parts of the tongue, and also that between the membrane of the mouth and the sublingual glands.
The disease, common in childhood, during which this gland becomes inflamed and swollen, is known as the “mumps.” The submaxillary gland is placed below and to the inner side of the lower jaw, and the sublingual is on the floor of the mouth, between the tongue and the gums.
Quotes with SUBLINGUAL (1)
It would seem that, through touch, through kissing, we might have gouged a worm-size channel through which crucial information could pass, sublingual messages, the kind of pre-verbal intimacy that should flow with thunderous force between the bodies of people so bonded. We should have been able to bypass a mere inability to exchange language.