Learn Some Common French Words

• Bonjour = Hello, Good morning.
• Au revoir = Goodbye.
• Oui = Yes.
• Non = No.
• Merci = Thank you.
• Merci beaucoup = Thank you very much.
• Fille = Girl.
• Garçon = Boy.

correct

1. 1. (= accurate) correct(e) ⧫ exact(e) That’s correct. C’est exact. You are correct. Vous avez raison.
2. 2. [ choice, answer] bon(ne) the correct choice le bon choix. the correct answer la bonne réponse.
3. 3. (= proper) correct(e) ⧫ convenable.

How to say “What’s wrong?” in French (Qu’est-ce qui ne va pas ?)

noun

1. a movable mass of muscular tissue attached to the floor of the mouth in most vertebrates. It is the organ of taste and aids the mastication and swallowing of food.
2. an analogous organ in invertebrates.
3. the tongue of certain animals used as food.
4. a language, dialect, or idiomthe English tongue.

The French translation for “tongue” is langue.

Tongue supposedly came from the Latin word lingua, meaning “language,” but you can’t hear the similarity because we pronounce it TUNG, keeping the “ue” silent. A tongue can be anything shaped like your tongue. Tongue also means language, like the German tongue, or the Cajun tongue.

She and Wang have been looking into isolated congenital aglossia, the rare condition in which a person is born without a tongue. Rogers, their test case, is one of 11 people recorded in medical literature since 1718 to have the condition, and there are fewer than 10 in the world today who have it, McMicken said.

Talking without a tongue is possible. For Cynthia Zamora, simply being able to talk is nothing short of miraculous. Three years ago, doctors found a tumor that covered more than half her tongue. Surgeons had to remove most of Cynthia’s tongue– and then use tissue from her thigh to rebuild a new one.

Small injuries may often heal on their own. If the injury is long or deep, it may need stitches that dissolve over time. If a piece of your tongue was cut off or bitten off, it may have been reattached.

Doctors at Fortis Hospital successfully perform rare tongue reconstruction surgery on a cancer patient. Doctors from Fortis Hospital, Nagarbhavi, Bangalore successfully performed a free flap surgery (reconstruct of tongue) on a 37 year old man who was diagnosed with tongue cancer.

If you had surgery to your voicebox, mouth, jaw, tongue or throat you will have problems talking after your operation. This can be frustratng and you may feel you have no control over things.

While there is a significant amount of individual variability on pain perception, tongue base surgeries have as the main issue a significant amount of post-operative pain. You will be prescribed narcotic pain medication after surgery, try to avoid allowing the pain to become intolerable before you use the medication.

Two prosthetic tongues can be made, one for phonetics and the other for swallowing. The tongue made for phonetics is somewhat flat, with a slightly wide anterior elevation to aid in articulation of linguo-alveolar sounds ‘t’ and ‘d’ and to aid in shaping the oral cavity for improved vowel production.

1. Pour ½ cup of flesh-colored liquid latex into a plastic bowl.
2. Dip five large cotton balls into the liquid latex together.
3. Remove the now-soaked cotton balls from latex, and place them on a glass tray.
4. Add details to the latex tongue using a toothpick and a stipple sponge while the latex is still wet.

Today, a prosthetic eye is generally made of hard, plastic acrylic. The prosthetic eye is shaped like a shell. The prosthetic eye fits over an ocular implant. The ocular implant is a separate hard, rounded device that is surgically and permanently embedded deeper in the eye socket.

Palatal Augmentation Prostheses. • Reshaping of the hard. palate to improve. tongue to hard palate. contact.

The obturators are prosthesis used to close palatal defects after maxillectomy, to restore masticatory function and to improve speech. The primary goals of the obturator prosthesis are to preserve the remaining teeth and tissue and to provide comfort, function, and aesthetics to the patients.

Crying is the best self relief method which is natural and is not associated with eyes, whether one has no eyes or has fake eyes he can still produce tears by tear glands and cry normally. Crying without an eye is just like raining without water.

An artificial eye typically is covered by health insurance, not vision insurance, and is considered to be durable medical equipment. For patients without health insurance, a prosthetic eye typically costs from about $2,000-$8,000 or more.

Most patients have a headache for 24-36 hours after surgery which goes away with two regular Tylenol every 4 hours. Many patients are concerned that the loss of the eye may hurt. But the eye is surrounded by bones, therefore it is much easier to tolerate removal of an eye as compared to loss of a lung or kidney.

Eye Removal (Enucleation & Evisceration) Enucleation is the surgical removal of the entire eye. Evisceration is the surgical removal of the contents of the eye, leaving the white part of the eye (the sclera) and the eye muscles intact.

You should be able to get your eye back in place without serious, long-term damage. (If the ocular muscles tear or if the optic nerve is severed, your outlook won’t be as clear.)

There are a variety of reasons that an eye may be removed. Some of the most common indications include trauma, cancer (such as retinoblastoma or ocular melanoma), end stage eye disease (such as diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma, or after multiple eye surgeries), or an otherwise degenerated blind and/or painful eye.

Enucleation involves removing the entire eyeball but leaving the eye muscles and other orbital contents present. With evisceration, just the contents of the eye and cornea are removed; the sclera (white part of eye) remains. Evisceration is considered the easier of the two, but not everyone qualifies for it.