See Also: Palantype(dictionary)
fissured fracture(medicine)
fissured tongue(medicine)
Herbal medicine (botanical medicine, herbology, phytomedicine)(health)
Medicine Lodge Memorial Hospital- Medicine Lodge(health)
Orthomolecular medicine (orthomolecular nutritional medicine, orthomolecular therapy)(health)
medicine(dictionary)
medicine(2)(dictionary)
medicine(1)(dictionary)
medicine man(dictionary)

fissured tongue (medicine) and Palantype (iou)


fissured tongue (medicine)


fissured tongue


A painless condition of the tongue characterised by numerous grooves or furrows on the dorsal surface.

Synonym: grooved tongue, lingua fissurata, lingua plicata, scrotal tongue.


Palantype (iou)



Palantype noun. Also palantype. M20.
[from Clementine Camille Marie Palanque, English manufacturer + TYPE noun.]
(Proprietary name for) a machine for typing in shorthand. Also, the system of shorthand used with this machine.
palantypist noun M20.