Tongue Parts

• Filiform Papilla: Increase surface area + grasp
• Fungiform Papilla: Increase surface area + taste buds
• Vallate Papilla: Increase surface area + taste
• tongue stuff

  A) Fungiform Papilla

  B) Vallate Papilla

  C) Filiform Papilla

  
• What are the 5 tastes?

  Sweet, sour, salty, bitter, umami
• Three salivary glands?

  Parotid, Submandibular and Sublingual
• salivary glands

  A) parotid

  B) submandibular

  C) sublingual

  
• The three tonsils are?

  Lingual, Palatine and Pharyngeal
• Function of tonsils?

  Immune system responders