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inferior lingual muscle (medicine) and vast (oh)


inferior lingual muscle (medicine)


inferior lingual muscle -->
inferior longitudinal muscle of tongue


An intrinsic muscle of the tongue, cylindrical in shape, occupying the underpart on either side; action, shortens the lower part of the tongue; nerve supply, motor by hypoglossal, sensory by lingual.

Synonym: musculus longitudinalis inferior, inferior lingual muscle.


vast (oh)



[Date: 1500-1600; Language: Latin; Origin: vastus 'empty, desolate, very large']
extremely large
-synonym huge huge
vast amounts/numbers/quantities/sums etc (of sth)
::The government will have to borrow vast amounts of money.
::The refugees come across the border in vast numbers .
vast areas/expanses/tracts etc (of sth)
::vast areas of rainforest
::In the past five years, there has been a vast improvement in graduation rates.
the vast majority (of sth)
used when you want to emphasize that something is true about almost all of a group of people or things
::The vast majority of books on the subject are complete rubbish.
-- vastness n [U]