Macroglossia

Macroglossia is the medical term for an unusually large tongue. Severe enlargement of the tongue can cause cosmetic and functional difficulties in speaking, eating, swallowing and sleeping. [Source: Wikipedia ]

Synonyms

Large tongue

Is A

Tongue abnormality

May Cause

Oropharyngeal lesion

Upper airway obstruction in a child

May Be Caused by

 Common

Amyloidosis

Hypothyroidism

Infantile hypothyroidism

Trisomy 21

 Uncommon

Acromegaly

Atelosteogenesis

Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome

Blomstrand dysplasia

Carcinoma

Chromosome 12p trisomy

Chromosome 4:dup(4p) syndrome

Chromosome 4p trisomy

Chromosome 9q deletion

Chromosome UPD 6 9DAS0

Costello syndrome

Cyst

Dermoid cyst

Duplication cyst

Dyggve-Melchior-Clausen dysplasia

Familial macroglossia

Glycogen storage disease type 2

GM1 gangliosidosis

Granular cell myoblastoma

Hemangioma

Hurler syndrome

Infant of diabetic mother

Jaw or dental deformity with increased mouth size

Kocher-Debré-Sémélaigne syndrome

Lethal congenital dwarfism with accelerated maturation

Lingual cyst

Lingual thyroid

Lymphangioma

Melkersson-Rosenthal syndrome

Mucopolysaccharidosis

Mucopolysaccharidosis type 1-S

Mucopolysaccharidosis type 6

Mucosal neuroma syndrome

Multiple endocrine neoplasia syndrome type 2B

Muscular dystrophy

Myotonia congenita

Neurofibromatosis

Plummer-Vinson syndrome

Ranula

Rhabdomyoma

Rhabdomyosarcoma

Robinow syndrome

Sialocyst

Simpson-Golabi-Behmel syndrome

Thyroglossal duct cyst

Tongue neoplasm

Trauma

Triploidy