. A manual of diseases of the nose and throat. -culus, which can readily be extracted with a pair offorceps. The cavity should be syringed out with anantiseptic solution (carbolic acid, 1 : 100) for a fewdays, until healing takes place. LINGUAL VARIX. A dilated, varicose condition of the veins at the baseof the tongue, in the region behind the circumvallatepapillae. Etiology. This condition is often found in those inwhom there is an obstruction to the return circula-tion of the blood, due to valvular lesions in the is very commonly one of the manifestations ofchronic alcoholism, and i
. A manual of diseases of the nose and throat. -culus, which can readily be extracted with a pair offorceps. The cavity should be syringed out with anantiseptic solution (carbolic acid, 1 : 100) for a fewdays, until healing takes place. LINGUAL VARIX. A dilated, varicose condition of the veins at the baseof the tongue, in the region behind the circumvallatepapillae. Etiology. This condition is often found in those inwhom there is an obstruction to the return circula-tion of the blood, due to valvular lesions in the is very commonly one of the manifestations ofchronic alcoholism, and is associated with congestion LINGUAL VARIX. 331 and cirrhosis of the liver, so frequently found in thosewho are intemperate in the use of alcohol. It is seenin those who are subject to chronic rheumatism andgout. It occurs also in women at about the period ofthe menopause. Symptoms. The symptoms complained of in this con-dition are a sense of fulness or of a lump in the throat,which patients continually try, but ineffectually, to get Fig. Linmial varix. rid of by swallowing or try to raise by coughing. Theveins frequently rupture, and the individual expecto-rates a slight amount of blood or blood-stained are apt to consider this an indication of con-sumption, having a cough, and knowing, as they do,that hemorrhage is one of the symptoms of pulmonarytuberculosis. Examination. Examination of the base of the tongueshows plainly the dark bluish, dilated, distended veins(Fig. 90). They run anteroposterior^ at the base of thetongue, spreading out, fan-shaped, from the epiglottis. Treatment. These veins are best obliterated with the 332 DISEASES OF OROPHARYNX, TONSILS, 91.
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