Question

What are the different kinds of structures that are seen on our tongue?

Answer 1

• We can clearly see flake like structures called the filiform papillae.
• The roundish structures on the tongue are fungiform papillae.
• There are large roundish ones at the back of the tongue are circumvallate papillae.
• On the sides of the tongue are the bump like structures are foliate papillae.
• Taste buds are present on all of these except the fili form papillae that are not the sites of taste sensation.