Usually means: Small pit at tongue base.
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  1. foramen cecum: Dictionary.com
  2. Foramen cecum (dental), Foramen cecum (frontal bone), Foramen cecum (tongue), Foramen cecum: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  3. Foramen cecum: TheFreeDictionary.com
  4. foramen cecum: Wiktionary

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  1. foramen cecum: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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Definitions from Wiktionary (foramen cecum)

noun:  (anatomy) A shallow depression in the posterior dorsal midline of the tongue that is the remnant of the more cranial part of the embryonic duct from which the thyroid gland developed.

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