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Last updated: 2026-08-18

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Anatomical illustrations on this site

Anatomical illustrations are sourced from openly licensed references:

  • Gray's Anatomy (1918) — public domain line-art plates from Henry Gray, “Anatomy of the Human Body,” used since 1918 as a standard medical reference.
  • Servier Medical Art (CC BY 4.0) — modern flat-style medical diagrams freely available for educational use.
  • Wikimedia Commons — community-contributed medical illustrations, including:
    • “Anatomy of Nose-Pharynx-Mouth-Larynx” (figure 2303) — OpenStax CNX Anatomy & Physiology textbook (CC BY 3.0)
    • “Frenulum linguae02” — clinical photograph of tongue-tie by Klaus D. Peter, Wiehl, Germany (CC BY 3.0 DE)
    • “Airway obstruction during sleep” — diagram of obstructive sleep apnea by Drcamachoent (CC BY-SA 4.0)
    • Temporomandibular joint diagram (CC BY-SA 3.0) and the tongue-blocking-airway diagram
  • Blog post hero images — open-license illustrations used on each blog post's hero, including:
    • “Muscles of the right side of the head and neck, colour mezzo” (Wellcome V0007807) — colour mezzotint from the Wellcome Collection, depicting the muscles of the head, face, and neck relevant to myofunctional therapy (CC BY 4.0)
    • “Adult and pediatric airway anatomy” — anatomical diagram comparing adult and pediatric airway anatomy, published by Open Critical Care with support from the World Health Organization (CC BY 4.0)
    • “Clinical Consequences of Ankyloglossia from Childhood to Adulthood” (figure 02) — comparison of normal adult anatomy with the high-arched palate, crowded teeth, and elongated soft-palate phenotype associated with adult tongue-tie, by O'Connor-Reina C, Rodriguez Alcala L, Bosco G, Martínez-Ruiz de Apodaca P, Mackers P, Garcia-Iriarte MT, Baptista P, Plaza G, International Journal of Orofacial Myology and Myofunctional Therapy 2025;51(1):5 (CC BY 4.0)
    • “Tongue blocking airway” — side-by-side sagittal diagram of the tongue and airway, by Vassia Atanassova (vector: Offnfopt) (public domain)
  • Peer-reviewed medical literature: Mills N, Pransky SM, Geddes DT, Mirjalili SA, “What is a tongue tie? Defining the anatomy of the in-situ lingual frenulum,” Clinical Anatomy 2019;32:749–761 (CC BY 4.0) for the tongue-tie diagram.
  • Historical medical literature: Lindner S, “Das Saugen an den Fingern, Lippen, etc. bei den Kindern (Ludeln),” Jahrbuch für Kinderheilkunde (Leipzig), 1879–1880 (public domain) for the thumb-sucking engraving.

These illustrations are used as visual reference for educational purposes only. They are not medical advice and may not reflect current medical understanding.

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