What are these things: http://www.ishiboo.com/~nirva/Mods/tonguesplit/tongue_split.jpg
Pardon the bifurcated tongue, but it seems most pictures one can find on “tongue” searches are bifurcated or something weird. Anyway, the little dimples sticking out along the two lines under the tongue - what are they called and what do they do?
In that picture, you can really only see one sticking out - it is whitish and about in the middle of the right half of the tongue.
I presume from whence we gleek. 
Yep, it’s an opening for one of the spit glands, although that’s not it’s formal name. It’s usually called a sublingual gland, or a sublingual salivary gland.
Whoa. There’s a word for it?
I learned my something new today!
Here, I have made arrows pointing to what I’m talking about. The double arrow to the dimple that seems obvious, the single arrows to others (which I think are the same, but harder to see).
They just have always been so small that I’ve barely noticed them before - but recently one got spontaneously swollen and it looks like a little sausage now. I’m sure it will heal up fine, but I’m still curious.
IANAD, but I still think it’s what we all are talking about. Perhaps you’ve had some minor trauma to one of the ducts or a blockage and it’s become infected…that could cause swelling. But what you’re pointing at still looks like a sublingual caruncle to me
Yep. IANAD, but them’s the bits we learned about in anatomy class.
Thanks - I was sure because they are so small.
