- coated tongue
- a tongue covered with a whitish or yellowish layer consisting of desquamated epithelium, debris, bacteria, fungi, or other material, which is readily removed by scraping.
Medical dictionary. 2011.
coated tongue
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coated tongue — tongue which has a whitish coating (symptom of a disease) … English contemporary dictionary
coated tongue — Ea … English-Hawaiian dictionary
tongue — n. language 1) one s mother, native tongue organ of speech speech 2) to use one s tongue ( to speak ) 3) to hold one s tongue ( to be silent ) 4) to find one s tongue ( to begin to speak ) 5) to stick out one s tongue (the child stuck out its… … Combinatory dictionary
tongue — Alelo, elelo, lelo. Tongue tip, ēlau alelo, wēlau alelo, lau alelo. Coated tongue, alelo pala. Double tongued, elelo lua. To stick out the tongue, as in contempt, ho opake o i ke alelo. Sharp tongued, kekē, waha ā. The… … English-Hawaiian dictionary
Tongue — The tongue is a strong muscle anchored to the floor of the mouth. It is covered by the lingual membrane which has special areas to detect tastes. The tongue is composed of muscles attached to the lower jaw and to the hyoid bone (a small, U shaped … Medical dictionary
tongue — tongueless, adj. tonguelike, adj. /tung/, n., v. tongued, tonguing. n. 1. Anat. the usually movable organ in the floor of the mouth in humans and most vertebrates, functioning in eating, in tasting, and, in humans, in speaking. See diag. under… … Universalium
coated — coat·ed əd adj of the tongue covered with a yellowish white deposit of desquamated cells, bacteria, and debris usu. as an accompaniment of digestive disorder … Medical dictionary
white strawberry tongue — the white coated tongue with prominent red papillae characteristic of the early stage of scarlet fever; the coating desquamates, leaving a beefy red tongue (raspberry t.). White strawberry tongue of early scarlet fever … Medical dictionary
encrusted tongue — a heavily coated tongue … Medical dictionary
furred tongue — white coated tongue (symptom of illness) … English contemporary dictionary
