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Discover LudwigThe term "primary tongue" is correct and can be used in written English
It is typically used to refer to a person's first language or the language they are most fluent in. This term can be used in various contexts, such as discussing language proficiency or education. Example: English is my primary tongue, but I am also fluent in French and Spanish. Example: The school offers classes in both Chinese and English, catering to students with different primary tongues.
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"My primary tongue, I would call North-West Mercian".
About three-fifths of Canadians speak English as their first language, while less than one-fourth identify French as their primary tongue.
Instead of race as an admissions factor, they now will use socioeconomic data from the student's neighborhood — income, education levels, single-parent households, owner-occupied homes and the use of language other than English as the primary tongue — in placing children in selective-enrollment schools.
Primary tongue adenoid cystic carcinoma (ACC) is extremely rare.
The sublingua ("under-tongue") is a muscular secondary tongue found below the primary tongue in tarsiers and living strepsirrhine primates, which includes lemurs and lorisoids (collectively called "lemuriforms").
The sublingua, or "under-tongue", is a secondary tongue located below the primary tongue in tarsiers, lemuriform primates, and some other mammals.
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Similar to the cell line models, E-cadherin expression in the primary oral tongue cancer tissue is correlated with the cancer grading and is an indicator of poor prognosis for oral tongue cancer patients [ 15].
In a study by Zhou et al., 25 primary oral tongue SCC were classified based on lymph node status and the presence of extracapsular spread.
In the abstract it is stated that 50 paired primary oral tongue cancers were studied, but doesn't state whether the tumors were paired to normal blood or other tissue.
The inclusion criteria were as follows: primary oral tongue cancer; pathologically proven T4a pT4a -staged squamous cell carcinoma wiT4a pT4a -stagedmagnetic resquamousimaging (MRI); and acellted primary tumor wide excarcinomath neck dissection in our medical center with definitely preoperative and N classification.
This was a systematic review of the current research on speech and swallowing outcomes and the factors affecting these outcomes after primary resection of tongue cancer and free flap reconstruction.
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