glosso-, gloss-, -glossa, -glossia +

Referring to, or relating to, the chin and tongue.

A genioglossus muscle, or an extrinsic muscle of the tongue, arising from the superior mental spine (slight projection) of the mandible (jaw bone) and which depresses and protrudes the tongue.

Inflammation of both the tongue and gingival (gum) tissues.

1. Referring to the tongue or a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity.
2. A structure in the mouth of an insect that resembles a tongue.

Sensations, or feelings, of the tongue.

Painful sensations in the tongue, including a sensation of burning.

Referring to, relating to, or pertaining to, the tongue.

Anthrax (cluster of boils), or carbuncle (boils), of the tongue.

1. A compiler of a glossary.
2. A writer of glosses or of a glossary.

1. An alphabetical list of technical terms in some specialized field of knowledge; usually published as an appendix to a text about that field.
2. An alphabetical list of often difficult or specialized words with their definitions, often placed at the back of a book.
3. A collection of glosses; a list with explanations of abstruse, antiquated, dialectal, or technical terms; a partial dictionary.

1. Someone who writes glosses; a glossarist.
2. One of the medieval interpreters of the Roman and cannon laws.

A descriptive term for the writing of glosses.

1. Partial or total surgical excision of the tongue.
2. Excision or amputation of the tongue.

A reference to glossematics.

1. A school of linguistic analysis developed by Louis Hjelmslev (1899–1965) in Copenhagen in the 1930s based on the study of the distribution of glossemes (the smallest meaningful units of a language).
2. A neologism combining glossary with mathematics to indicate a formalized system of study.

This system apparently strives to establish a universal standard defining the necessary and sufficient conditions of language.