Resembling or shaped like a tongue; having characteristics similar to tongue tissue.
From Greek 'glossa' (tongue) + '-oid' (resembling, shaped like). This suffix'-oid' allows medical professionals to describe structures that mimic other structures.
The '-oid' suffix is everywhere in anatomy—humanoid, android, deltoid—because it lets doctors quickly say 'shaped like X' without explaining the whole structure.
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