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foramen cecum of tongue

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The median pit on the dorsum of the posterior part of the tongue, from which the limbs of a V-shaped furrow run forward and outward; the foramen cecum is the point of attachment of the thyroglossal duct and is formed during the embryological descent of the thyroid gland [ https://github.com/obophenotype/uberon/issues/281 ]

Term info

Label

foramen cecum of tongue

Synonyms
  • Morand's foramen
  • Morgagni foramen
  • blind foramen of tongue
  • cecal foramen of tongue
  • ductus lingualis
  • foramen caecum linguae
  • foramen cecum of tongue
  • foramen of Morgagni
database cross reference
Subsets

pheno_slim

depicted by

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/Foramen_caecum.png

editor note

consider merging with FC of thyroid

has related synonym

f. caecum linguae

id

UBERON:0006699