different between salivary vs ranula

English

Etymology

saliva +? -ary

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?sæl??v??i/

Adjective

salivary (not comparable)

1. Relating to saliva.

Derived terms

• salivary gland

Translations

Noun

salivary (plural salivaries)

1. A salivary gland.
   • 1914, Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society (page 130)

     The most striking peculiarity, however, is the presence of a pair of glands (possibly aborted salivaries) apparently issuing from the posterior of the pharynx, and looking like the two ends of a clergyman's bands or cravat.

English

Etymology

Late Middle English, coined by French physician and surgeon Guy de Chauliac: borrowed from Latin r?nula (“a little frog, a tadpole; a little swelling on the tongue of cattle”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??an.j?l.?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??æn.j?l.?/

Noun

ranula (plural ranulae or ranulas)

1. (pathology) A tumor or swelling located in the floor of the mouth under the tongue; specifically a bluish, domed mucocele which is associated with an obstruction of the sublingual salivary gland. [from 15th c.]

Derived terms

• ranular

Translations

References

• “ranula”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• “ranula”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).

Anagrams

• anural

Latin

Etymology

From r?na (“a frog”) +? -ula (diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ra?.nu.la/, [?rä?n???ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ra.nu.la/, [?r??nul?]

Noun

r?nula f (genitive r?nulae); first declension

1. Diminutive of r?na:
   1. (literally, Classical Latin) A little frog, a tadpole. [from 2nd c.]
   2. (transferred sense, post-Classical, pathology) A little swelling on the tongue of cattle.

Inflection

First-declension noun.

Descendants

• ? English: ranula

References

• ranula in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press