Tongue and Taste Buds Flashcards
what are the functions of the tongue in terns of ingestion
mastication - direct food
suckling
swallow
cleansing mouth
what are the functions of the tongue in terms of sensory
taste?gustation
touch/mechanorecepton
what else tongue inv in
speech
what is the tongues last quality control for
ingestion - protection - food selection - food avoidance reflex
what are extrinsic muscles
orig from structures out from tongue and insert into the tongue
what are some exrisnnc muscles
genioglossus (XII)
hypoglossus “
styloglossus “
palatoglossus (X)
what do extrisinc muscles do
change shape of tongue move tongue bodily - protrude retract depress elevate
what are intrisinc muscles
orig and insert within the tongue
what are some intrinsic muscles
sup long
inf long
transers
vertical
what does the intrisinc muscles do
lengthen - shorten
curling
flatten an rounding
what are the receptors of the tongue
taste buds
2000-5000
where are taste buds
hard soft palate junction
dorsal and lat
most papillae
some examples of taste bduds
circumvallate
foliate
fungiform
filiform
where are the location of filifirom
anterior tongue
what is strutter of filiform
cone shaped
CT core
keratinised epi cover tip- abrasive
non keratinised between - flexible
where are fungiform papillae
anterior part of tongue
wha is innervation of fungiform
VII acial - carried by lingual via chords tympani
what are fugntifiom clinically seen as
red spots