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A form of retention cyst of the floor of the mouth, usually due to obstruction of the ducts of the submaxillary or sublingual glands, presenting a slowly enlarging painless deep burrowing mucocele of one side of the mouth. It is also called sublingual cyst and sublingual ptyalocele.
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- Ranulas
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non-neoplastic
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- National Library of Medicine. Ranula. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D011900. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D011900
- Ranula. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranula
- Ranula. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1756640