Lingula

Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]

Lingula is Latin for "little tongue". It can stand for:

• Lingula (genus) a brachiopod genus of the family Lingulidae, which is among the few brachiopods surviving today but also known from fossils over 50 million years old.
• In anatomy:
  • the Lingula of left lung is one of the segments of the left lung with a tongue-shape
  • The Sphenoidal lingula is part of the sphenoid bone
  • The Lingula of mandible, a ridge on the medial aspect of the body of the mandible, just anterior to the mandibular foramen
  • the Lingula of cerebellum

References

• Lingulidae
• Lingula

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