The median pit on the dorsum of the posterior part of the tongue, from which the limbs of a V-shaped furrow run forward and outward; the foramen cecum is the point of attachment of the thyroglossal duct and is formed during the embryological descent of the thyroid gland. [ MP:0013234 https://github.com/obophenotype/uberon/issues/281 ]

Synonyms: cecal foramen of tongue blind foramen of tongue Morand's foramen foramen caecum linguae Morgagni foramen foramen cecum of tongue foramen of Morgagni ductus lingualis

This is just here as a test because I lose it

Term information

Subsets

pheno_slim

depicted by

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a3/Foramen_caecum.png

editor note

consider merging with FC of thyroid

has related synonym

f. caecum linguae

id

UBERON:0006699