Definition of ranula

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Ranula (n.) A cyst formed under the tongue by obstruction of the duct of the submaxillary gland.

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Eclogite :: Eclogite (n.) A rock consisting of granular red garnet, light green smaragdite, and common hornblende; -- so called in reference to its beauty..
Protoplasm :: Protoplasm (n.) The viscid and more or less granular material of vegetable and animal cells, possessed of vital properties by which the processes of nutrition, secretion, and growth go forward; the so-called physical basis of life; the original cell substance, cytoplasm, cytoblastema, bioplasm sarcode, etc..
Epidote :: Epidote (n.) A mineral, commonly of a yellowish green (pistachio) color, occurring granular, massive, columnar, and in monoclinic crystals. It is a silicate of alumina, lime, and oxide of iron, or manganese..
Anaplerotic :: Anaplerotic (a.) Filling up; promoting granulation of wounds or ulcers.
Gunpowder :: Gunpowder (n.) A black, granular, explosive substance, consisting of an intimate mechanical mixture of niter, charcoal, and sulphur. It is used in gunnery and blasting..
Chondro- :: Chondro- () A combining form meaning a grain, granular, granular cartilage, cartilaginous; as, the chondrocranium, the cartilaginous skull of the lower vertebrates and of embryos..
Granulary :: Granulary (a.) Granular.
Corn :: Corn (v. t.) To form into small grains; to granulate; as, to corn gunpowder..
Cat-salt :: Cat-salt (n.) A sort of salt, finely granulated, formed out of the bittern or leach brine..
Granitoid :: Granitoid (a.) Resembling granite in granular appearance; as, granitoid gneiss; a granitoid pavement..
Soredium :: Soredium (n.) A patch of granular bodies on the surface of the thallus of lichens.
Anaplerotic :: Anaplerotic (n.) A remedy which promotes such granulation.
Granuliform :: Granuliform (a.) Having a granular structure; granular; as, granuliform limestone..
Chondritic :: Chondritic (a.) Granular; pertaining to, or having the granular structure characteristic of, the class of meteorites called chondrites..
Granulous :: Granulous (a.) Full of grains; abounding with granular substances; granular.
Pseudorhabdite :: Pseudorhabdite (n.) One of the peculiar rodlike corpuscles found in the integument of certain Turbellaria. They are filled with a soft granular substance.
Tapioca :: Tapioca (n.) A coarsely granular substance obtained by heating, and thus partly changing, the moistened starch obtained from the roots of the cassava. It is much used in puddings and as a thickening for soups. See Cassava..
Syenitic :: Syenite (n.) A granular, crystalline, ingeous rock composed of orthoclase and hornblende, the latter often replaced or accompanied by pyroxene or mica. Syenite sometimes contains nephelite (elaeolite) or leucite, and is then called nephelite (elaeolite) syenite or leucite syenite..
Incarnation :: Incarnation (n.) The process of healing wounds and filling the part with new flesh; granulation.
Granularly :: Granularly (adv.) In a granular form.
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