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in length and eight mm.

in breadth, forming a tumor at the base of the normal tongue.
It was removed by scissors, and on histologic examination proved to be a true tongue with the typical tissues and constituents.

Borellus, Ephemerides, Eschenbach, Mortimer, Penada, and Schenck speak of double tongues, and Avicenna and Schenck have seen fissured tongues.

Dolaeus records an instance of double tongue in a paper entitled "De puella bilingui," and Beaudry and Brothers speak of cleft tongue.

Braine records a case in which there was a large hypertrophied fold of membrane coming from each side of the upper lip.
In some cases there is marked augmentation of the volume of the tongue.
Fournier has seen a juggler with a tongue so long that he could extrude it six inches from his mouth.


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