LP30556-2

Tongue

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Description

The tongue is the large bundle of skeletal muscles on the floor of the mouth that manipulates food for chewing and swallowing, (deglutition). It is the primary organ of taste. Much of the surface of the tongue is covered in taste buds. The tongue with its wide variety of possible movements assists in forming the sounds of speech. It is sensitive and kept moist by saliva, richly supplied with nerves and blood vessels to help it be moved. The word tongue can be used as a metonym for language, as in the phrase mother tongue. In fact, Portuguese, French (langue), Romanian, Russian, Persian, Greek, Spanish (lengua), Polish, Slovak, Czech, Armenian, Finnish, Irish, Italian, Latin, Urdu, Aramaic, and Turkic languages, have the same word for tongue and language. A common temporary failure in word retrieval from memory is referred to as tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon. Copyright Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ for details. Source: Wikipedia, Tongue (Wikipedia)

Basic Part Properties

Part Name

Tongue

Part Display Name

Tongue

Part Type

System (Describes the name of the system (sample) type)

Created On

2002-08-09

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Tongue

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