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A search of webmd.com was unsuccessful in finding lingual pneumonia. The tissue underneath the tongue is called the lingual frenulum; webmd.com references to the lingualfrenulum related specifically to "tongue - tie(ankyloglossia) a birth defect in which the tissue that attaches the tongue to the bottom of the mouth (lingual frenulum) is abnormally short."

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