Care is needed to avoid injury of the hypo-glossal nerve, which lies above the muscle.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners] Reference

These variations in size and repeated attacks of bleeding help to distinguish thyreo-glossal cysts from other swellings of the tongue.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.] Reference

Words Containing One Basic Root canine cynic ` dog 'febrile pyretic ` fever' lingual glossal ` tongue 'peculiar idiotic ` one's own, private' popular demotic ` people 'position thesis ` place, put' rabies mania ` madness 'regal basilic ` king' risible gelastic ` laugh 'scientism gnosticism ` know' stellar astral ` star 'terrene chthonic ` earth' testis orchid ` testis '.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VII No 3] Reference

#Thyreo-glossal Tumours and Cysts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.] Reference

Thyreo-glossal cysts, 538, 583, 599 fistulæ, 538, 583 tumours, 538.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.] Reference

Neck, actinomycosis of, 598 boils of, 598 branchial carcinoma, 160 bursal swellings in, 599 carbuncles of, 598 cellulitis of, 597 cervical auricles, 583 fascia, 583 ribs, 585 cicatricial contraction of, 592 contusion of, 592 cystic lymphangioma of, 599 cysts of, 598 blood, 599 branchial, 598 bursal, 599 dermoid, 598 fistulæ of, 584, 585 hydrocele of, 599 hygroma of, 599 injuries of, 592 malformations of, 583 paraffin epithelioma of, 602 potato-like tumour of, 603 stiff, 587 surgical anatomy of, 582 thyreo-glossal cysts in, 538 tumours of, 598, 599 wounds of, 593 wry -, 587.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.] Reference