The tongue is a muscle, but does it have skin on it?

Answer 1

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.

Yes it is covered with skin.

Answer 2

The tongue is made up of taste buds, which are made up modified epithial cells called taste cells. So I would have to say no it doesn't have skin on it. I would imagine that it does have some sort of protective tissue, perhaps a kind of connective tissue.

Answer 3

When animal tongues are cooked, they are then 'skinned' - it is an obviously separate layer, even if the biological name, as stated above, is epithelium.

Answer 4

The "skin" that covers all our organs and inside-y bits is generally referred to as the epithelium, or epithelial layer, because it's made of epithelial cells.

Answer 5

Yes but it is different to the skin on your outer body..

Answer 6

its a skeletal muscle and is cover by taste buds

Answer 7

yes it does.
or it would look odd.
skin with some very sensitive nerves call taste-buds.

Answer 8

I think it hath sthkin on it, yeth

Answer 9

to be considered to have a skin it has to have an epidermis which it does not have.

Answer 10

mine has a wooly jumper most of the time....