coated tongue -
1coated tongue — tongue which has a whitish coating (symptom of a disease) …
2coated tongue — a tongue covered with a whitish or yellowish layer consisting of desquamated epithelium, debris, bacteria, fungi, or other material, which is readily removed by scraping …
3coated tongue — Ea …
4tongue — n. language 1) one s mother, native tongue organ of speech speech 2) to use one s tongue ( to speak ) 3) to hold one s tongue ( to be silent ) 4) to find one s tongue ( to begin to speak ) 5) to stick out one s tongue (the child stuck out its… …
5tongue — Alelo, elelo, lelo. Tongue tip, ēlau alelo, wēlau alelo, lau alelo. Coated tongue, alelo pala. Double tongued, elelo lua. To stick out the tongue, as in contempt, ho opake o i ke alelo. Sharp tongued, kekē, waha ā. The… …
6Tongue — The tongue is a strong muscle anchored to the floor of the mouth. It is covered by the lingual membrane which has special areas to detect tastes. The tongue is composed of muscles attached to the lower jaw and to the hyoid bone (a small, U shaped …
7tongue — tongueless, adj. tonguelike, adj. /tung/, n., v. tongued, tonguing. n. 1. Anat. the usually movable organ in the floor of the mouth in humans and most vertebrates, functioning in eating, in tasting, and, in humans, in speaking. See diag. under… …
8coated — coat·ed əd adj of the tongue covered with a yellowish white deposit of desquamated cells, bacteria, and debris usu. as an accompaniment of digestive disorder …
9white strawberry tongue — the white coated tongue with prominent red papillae characteristic of the early stage of scarlet fever; the coating desquamates, leaving a beefy red tongue (raspberry t.). White strawberry tongue of early scarlet fever …
10encrusted tongue — a heavily coated tongue …
