white tongue

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /waɪt.tʌŋɡ/
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Noun

white tongue (uncountable)

  1. A disease in which the tongue becomes pale due to dehydration, smoking, or alcohol consumption.
    • 1946, Sterling Vernon Mead, Oral Surgery:
      The tongue may be involved in various types of stomatitis, such as leucoplakia, geographic tongue, black tongue, white tongue, mercurialism, phenolphthalein, angioneurotic edema, […]

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