ankyloglossia
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prettygoodwordankyloglossia (ang-kuh-loh-GLAW-see-uh, ang-kuh-loh-GLOS-ee-uh) - n., limited movement of the tongue chiefly due to an abnormally shortened lingual frenulum, tongue-tie.
Physical tongue-tie, from which the social condition of being unable to speak is called being tongue-tied. The lingual frenulum is the narrow fold connecting the floor of the mouth to the middle underside of the tongue. This is a congenital condition that affects eating, talking, and pretty much anything we do with our tongues. Coined from Ancient Greek roots ancylo-, in English meaning both stiff/fused and bent/crooked but in Greek just crooked + glôssa, tongue.
---L.
Physical tongue-tie, from which the social condition of being unable to speak is called being tongue-tied. The lingual frenulum is the narrow fold connecting the floor of the mouth to the middle underside of the tongue. This is a congenital condition that affects eating, talking, and pretty much anything we do with our tongues. Coined from Ancient Greek roots ancylo-, in English meaning both stiff/fused and bent/crooked but in Greek just crooked + glôssa, tongue.
---L.
