muscle and taste buds
2006-10-24 15:21:50
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answer #1
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answered by Carol R 7
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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 variey 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.
Items relating to the tongue are often called lingual, which comes from the Latin word lingua, or glossal, which comes from the Greek word for tongue, γλωσσα.
It is also examined and observed diagnostically in traditional Chinese medicine.
2006-10-24 15:22:05
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answered by eeaglenest 3
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It is a muscle. It is meat, because muscle tissue is meat.
2006-10-24 15:20:49
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answer #3
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answered by Wattsie 3
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It moves, therefore I deduce it is mostly muscle.
Wikipedia says that too.
The tongue is the large bundle of skeletal muscles
2006-10-24 15:28:42
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answered by Anonymous
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Muscle, blood vessels, nerves, taste buds, fat, connective tissue, and the lymphatic system covers most of the components.
2006-10-24 15:23:59
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answered by DrB 7
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i think is made out of muscle, and tissue
2006-10-24 15:23:33
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answered by juanita2_2000 7
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the tongue is a large bunch of skeletal muscles
2006-10-24 15:22:12
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answered by Jimmy6 2
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It's the only muscle in your body that is attached at only one end.
2006-10-24 15:21:43
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answered by jperk1941 4
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tissue, muscles & blood
2006-10-24 15:22:17
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answer #9
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answered by Preeya 5
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I think that it is a muscle.
2006-10-24 15:29:00
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answered by suz' 5
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muscle
2006-10-24 15:28:13
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answered by day dreamin baby 5
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