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| Foramen cecum (tongue) | |
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| The entrance to the larynx, viewed from behind. | |
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| The mouth cavity. The cheeks have been slit transversely and the tongue pulled forward. (Foramen cecum is visible but not labeled.) | |
| Latin | f. caecum linguae |
| Gray's | subject #242 1125 |
| Precursor | pharyngeal arches[1] |
The dorsum of the tongue is convex and marked by a median sulcus, which divides it into symmetrical halves; this sulcus ends behind, about 2.5 cm. from the root of the organ, in a depression, the foramen cecum, from which a shallow groove, the sulcus terminalis, runs lateralward and forward on either side to the margin of the tongue.
The foramen cecum is the point of attachment of the thyroglossal duct.
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