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GLOSSOPTOSIS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does glossoptosis mean?
• GLOSSOPTOSIS (noun)
The noun GLOSSOPTOSIS has 1 sense:
1. abnormal downward or back placement of the tongue
Familiarity information: GLOSSOPTOSIS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Abnormal downward or back placement of the tongue
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("glossoptosis" is a kind of...):
descensus; prolapse; prolapsus (the slipping or falling out of place of an organ (as the uterus))
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