Same question as Jim - inside or outside the oral cavity? I assume from
your description that you mean outside, but I'm not sure.
Bob Ladd
On Thu, 11 Sep 2008, Scobbie, Jim wrote:
>
> I looked for quite a while for a term for this, and found only "floor of
> the mouth". You mean, the bottom of the volume called the sublingual
> cavity? Inside the mouth?
>
> Or the bit outside, onto which the probe actually touches? The area
> where some of us have a double chin?
>
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> Subject: Underside of jaw/chin
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> Dear all,
>
> does anyone know a technical term or good circumlocution for the skin covering the floor of the mouth under/behind the chin, below the mass of the tongue body, and between the bone of the lower jaw (mandible)?
>
> This is the bit where an ultrasound probe is placed to image the upper tongue surface. Gick (JIPA 32, 2002) describes the probe position as "below the chin and aimed up and back toward the tongue surface". I don't think that's bad, but "under/(up) against the X" would be even better. Like 'back of the knee', this seems not to have a name that I can find.
>
> Any suggestions, serious or otherwise, will be posted in summary.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mark
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