The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sublingual \Sub*lin"gual\, a. [Pref. sub + lingual: cf. F. sublingual.] (Anat.)
Situated under the tongue; as, the sublingual gland.
Of or pertaining to the sublingual gland; as, sublingual salvia.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. 1 (context medicine English) Administered through placement under the tongue. (from 17th c.) 2 (context anatomy English) Situated beneath the tongue. (from 17th c.)
WordNet
adj. beneath the tongue
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "sublingual".
He misses their sharp staccato conversations, their sublingual grunts, their smell of oniony sweat.
The saliva is composed of four elementary secretions, derived respectively, from the mucous follicles of the mouth, and the parotid, the submaxillary, and the sublingual glands.
Its filaments are distributed to the sides of the tongue, the sublingual, and submaxillary glands.
He slowed his lungs, taking deep, measured breaths, hoping his heart would follow suit, and cursing himself for being so careless as to have left behind his backup nitros, the fast-acting sublingual tablets for when his angina broke through the extended-release pills.
Oh sudden impulse, I also sent her a one-liner in sublingual private text mode.
He was pleasantly surprised to learn that slang could be a rich and inventive vocabulary on its own, rather than the sublingual resort of the inarticulate he had been taught it was.
Ducts from the submaxillary and sublingual glands open into the mouth below the tip of the tongue.
Warm compresses, venesection from the sublingual veins, and from the jugular, and purgatives in severe cases, are the further remedies.
He broke the quick-dissolving shell and let the drug penetrate the soft sublingual tissues.
He took a sublingual tablet and allowed it to dissolve under his tongue.
The sublingual glands were adherent to the under part of the tongue and were red and over-developed.