base of tongue

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base of tongue

Surgical anatomy An area defined by the Am Joint Committee on Cancer, as extending from the line of the circumvallate papillae to the junction of the base of the epiglottis–valleculae, including the pharyngoepiglottis and glossoepiglottic folds See Oropharynx, Oropharynx proper.

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