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Conditions peculiar to the tongue
1Department of Dental Diagnostic Science, University of Texas Health Science Center School of Dentistry at San Antonio, USA.
Dermatologic Clinics
|April 1, 1996
Abstract:
The tongue is the organ of taste, and it functions in speech, mastication, and the deglutition of food. This muscular organ is affected by many conditions and diseases, including a variety of developmental, traumatic, inflammatory, infectious, and neoplastic lesions.