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lytta


  1  definition  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Lytta  \Lyt"ta\  (l[i^]t"t[.a]),  n.;  pl  {Lytt[ae]}  (-t[=e]).  [L., 
  a  worm  said  to  grow  under  the  tongue  of  dogs,  and  to  cause 
  canine  madness,  fr  Gr  ly`tta,  ly`ssa,  lit.,  madness.] 
  (Anat.) 
  A  fibrous  and  muscular  band  lying  within  the  longitudinal 
  axis  of  the  tongue  in  many  mammals,  as  the  dog.