glossal

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lin·gual

1. Relating to the tongue or any tonguelike part. Synonym(s): glossal 2. Next to or toward the tongue. Farlex Partner Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012

lin·gual

1. Relating to the tongue or any tonguelike part.
Synonym(s): glossal. 2. Next to or toward the tongue. Medical Dictionary for the Health Professions and Nursing © Farlex 2012

glossal

Pertaining to the tongue. From the Greek glossa , a tongue. Collins Dictionary of Medicine © Robert M. Youngson 2004, 2005

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Obviously, to make a translation or a glossal adaptation of the Latin original did require of their authors a good competence, even bilingualism, in church Latin, as well as some gift of rendering Latin into an acceptable and understandable vernacular language.

I would rather refrain from calling the Lindisfarne interlinear texts glosses and would rather suggest other terms: either a glossal translation or continuous interlinear glosses, the latter expression is sometimes used by glossologists.

Neither would I treat them as errors in the art of glossal translation.

The next example of a moderate discrepancy between Latin and its glossal translation is connected with participles.

(1) Of these, only 1% are of intraoral origin, and of those, glossal tumors are even rarer.

There might be several indicative findings on examination, including redundant soft palate mucosa, an elongated uvula, oropharyngeal narrowing, and glossal or oropharyngeal hypotonic muscular collapse.

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