Question

what is tongue and describe the role of tongue in digestion​

Answer 1

Answer:

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tongue is a sense organ n our body ....

The role of tongue is that it helps in digestion process by helping in mixing food with saliva ...

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Answer 2

Answer:

• Freely movable structure made up of muscles.
• It is attacked to oral cavity by frenulum.
• It has the presence of taste buds.
• Anterior part is free whereas the posterior part is connected to hyoid bone.
• It can be dorsally divided into two parts by V shaped suculus terminalis.
• The mid part of the V shaped suculus terminalis is foramen caecum.
• The two parts are unequal - 1/3 is the pharyngeal part whereas 2/3 is pharyngeal or the oral part.
• The taste buds afe found in the oral part on the papillae which are the small projections on the tongue.
• The three types of papillae include the fungiform, filliform and the circumvallate.
• The fungiform isbsmall spherical pink coloured, mostly found on anterior part attached by small pedicel.
• The filliform are white thread like conical shaped. Found on entire surface and numerically high, but doesn't have taste buds.
• Circumvallate is largest and least in number. Spehrical in shape they are found near the suculs terminalis.
• At the pharyngeal part of the tongue, we have small lymph nodes called the lingual tonsils.