Lingula
Lingula is Latin for "little tongue". It can stand for:
- Lingula (genus), a brachiopod genus of the family Lingulidae, which is among the few brachiopods surviving today but also known from fossils over 500 million years old
- Lingala language, a Bantu language
- In anatomy:
- the Lingula of left lung, one of the segments of the left lung with a tongue-shape
- The Sphenoidal lingula, a part of the sphenoid bone
- The Lingula of mandible, a ridge on the medial aspect of the body of the mandible, just anterior to the mandibular foramen
- the Lingula of cerebellum
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