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Descriptor English: Ranula
Descriptor Spanish: Ránula
Descriptor ránula
Entry term(s) ptialocele sublingual
quiste sublingual
Scope note: Forma de quiste de retención del suelo de la boca que suele deberse a la obstrucción de los conductos de las glándulas submaxilares o sublinguales, se presenta como un mucocele profundo, de crecimiento lento e indoloro en uno de los lados de la boca. Se le llama también quiste sublingual y ptialocele sublingual.
Descriptor Portuguese: Rânula
Descriptor French: Grenouillette
Entry term(s): Ranulas
Tree number(s): C04.182.766
C07.465.780
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D011900
Scope note: A form of retention cyst of the floor of the mouth, usually due to obstruction of the ducts of the submaxillary or sublingual glands, presenting a slowly enlarging painless deep burrowing mucocele of one side of the mouth. It is also called sublingual cyst and sublingual ptyalocele.
Annotation: non-neoplastic
Allowable Qualifiers: BL blood
BS blood supply
CF cerebrospinal fluid
CH chemistry
CI chemically induced
CL classification
CN congenital
CO complications
DG diagnostic imaging
DH diet therapy
DI diagnosis
DT drug therapy
EC economics
EH ethnology
EM embryology
EN enzymology
EP epidemiology
ET etiology
GE genetics
HI history
IM immunology
ME metabolism
MI microbiology
MO mortality
NU nursing
PA pathology
PC prevention & control
PP physiopathology
PS parasitology
PX psychology
RH rehabilitation
RT radiotherapy
SC secondary
SU surgery
TH therapy
UL ultrastructure
UR urine
VE veterinary
VI virology
Public MeSH Note: 65
History Note: 65
DeCS ID: 12336
Unique ID: D011900
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Date Established: 1965/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 1994/05/24
Ranula - Preferred
Concept UI M0018473
Scope note A form of retention cyst of the floor of the mouth, usually due to obstruction of the ducts of the submaxillary or sublingual glands, presenting a slowly enlarging painless deep burrowing mucocele of one side of the mouth. It is also called sublingual cyst and sublingual ptyalocele.
Preferred term Ranula
Entry term(s) Ranulas



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