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  2. Lingual papillae - Wikipedia

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    Filiform papilla, magnified. Filiform papillae (from Latin filum ' thread ' and fōrmis ' having the form of ') are the most numerous of the lingual papillae. [1] They are fine, small, cone-shaped papillae found on the anterior surface of the tongue. [3] They are responsible for giving the tongue its texture and are responsible for the ...

  3. Taste receptor - Wikipedia

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    There are three types of papillae involved in taste: fungiform papillae, foliate papillae, and circumvallate papillae. (The fourth type - filiform papillae do not contain taste buds). Beyond the papillae, taste receptors are also in the palate and early parts of the digestive system like the larynx and upper esophagus.

  4. Tongue - Wikipedia

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    Embedded in this are numerous papillae, some of which house the taste buds and their taste receptors. [10] The lingual papillae consist of filiform, fungiform, vallate and foliate papillae, [6] and only the filiform papillae are not associated with any taste buds. The tongue can divide itself in dorsal and ventral surface.

  5. Talk:Filiform papilla - Wikipedia

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    These papillae are mechanical and not involved in gustation covering most of the dorsal (top). This sentence is, at best, confusing. Do the papillae or does gustation cover the top? "The dorsal" is incoherent, as "dorsal" is an adjective, not a noun. Characterized increased keratinization. This is not even a sentence. It is completely incoherent.

  6. Taste bud - Wikipedia

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    The taste buds on the tongue sit on raised protrusions of the tongue surface called papillae. There are four types of lingual papillae; all except one contain taste buds: Fungiform papillae - as the name suggests, these are slightly mushroom-shaped if looked at in longitudinal section. These are present mostly at the dorsal surface of the ...

  7. Taste - Wikipedia

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    Taste bud. The gustatory system or sense of taste is the sensory system that is partially responsible for the perception of taste. [1] Taste is the perception stimulated when a substance in the mouth reacts chemically with taste receptor cells located on taste buds in the oral cavity, mostly on the tongue.

  8. Von Ebner's gland - Wikipedia

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    Human Von Ebner's gland. Von Ebner's glands, also called Ebner's glands or gustatory glands, are exocrine glands found in the mouth. More specifically, they are serous salivary glands which reside adjacent to the moats surrounding the circumvallate and foliate papillae just anterior to the posterior third of the tongue in its submucosa, anterior to the terminal sulcus.

  9. Median rhomboid glossitis - Wikipedia

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    Median rhomboid glossitis is a condition characterized by an area of redness and loss of lingual papillae on the central dorsum of the tongue, sometimes including lesions of the tongue and palate. It is seen in patients using inhaled steroids and smokers, and is usually a kind of chronic atrophic oral candidiasis , but hematinic deficiency and ...