Tongue
- Type
- Organ
- Japanese
- 舌
- Reading
- した
- English
- Tongue
- Latin
- Lingua
- Main functions
- Tongue movement / Taste / Swallowing / Articulation (speech) / Mastication
Connections
Nerve supply
Part of
Includes
Muscles inserting here
Muscles arising here
Articles
A dedicated article on this structure is in preparation.
Also mentioned in
- Mentalis and genioglossus muscles: origin, insertion, action and nerve supply
- Transverse Muscle of the Tongue: Location, Action and Nerve
- Vertical muscle of the tongue and hyoglossus: position, action, nerve
- Superior and inferior longitudinal muscles of the tongue
- Palatoglossus: position, function and nerve supply
- Oral cavity: vestibule, oral cavity proper, fauces and the parts inside the mouth
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