ranula

== English == === Etymology === Late Middle English, coined by French physician and surgeon Guy de Chauliac: borrowed from Latin rānula (“a little frog, a tadpole; a little swelling on the tongue of cattle”). === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɹan.jʊl.ə/ (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɹæn.jəl.ə/ === Noun === ranula (plural ranulae or ranulas) (pathology) A tumor or swelling located in the floor of the mouth under the tongue; specifically a bluish, domed mucocele which is associated with an obstruction of the sublingual salivary gland. [from 15th c.] ==== Derived terms ==== ranular ==== Translations ==== === References === “ranula”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022. “ranula”, in Merriam-Webster.com Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present. === Anagrams === Narula, anural == Latin == === Etymology === From rāna (“a frog”) + -ula (diminutive suffix). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈraː.nʊ.ɫa] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈraː.nu.la] === Noun === rānula f (genitive rānulae); first declension diminutive of rāna: (literally, Classical Latin) A little frog, a tadpole. [from 2nd c.] (transferred sense, post-classical, pathology) A little swelling on the tongue of cattle. ==== Inflection ==== First-declension noun. ==== Descendants ==== === References === “ranula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press