The Mouse Adult Gross Anatomy Ontology and Mammalian Phenotype Ontology are downloaded weekly from the Mouse Genome Informatics databases at Jackson Laboratories (ftp://ftp.informatics.jax.org/pub/reports/index.html). For more information about these ontologies, see the MGI Publications Page at http://www.informatics.jax.org/mgihome/other/publications.shtml.
partial or complete fusion or adherence of the tongue to the floor of the mouth, resulting in varying degrees of restricted tongue mobility; partial ankyloglossia (aka tongue-tie) is caused by a lingual frenulum that is abnormally short or is attached too close to the tip of the tongue; in complete ankyloglossia the tongue is tethered to the floor of the mouth
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ankyloglossia; ankylosis of the tongue; lingual ankylosis; tongue-tie