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27 lut 2024 · Learn about the anatomy of the tongue, its intrinsic and extrinsic muscles, sensory and motor innervation, and clinical relevance. The tongue is a muscular structure that plays a key role in taste, speech, and swallowing.
3 lis 2023 · Learn about the intrinsic and extrinsic muscles of the tongue, their functions, innervation, and clinical relations. Also, explore the taste sensation, lingual papillae, taste buds, and gustatory pathway of the tongue.
27 wrz 2023 · Learn about the structure, function, and innervation of the tongue, a muscular organ in the oral cavity. The tongue has intrinsic and extrinsic muscles, taste buds, lingual papillae, and a complex blood and lymphatic supply.
Four paired intrinsic muscles of the tongue originate and insert within the tongue, running along its length. These muscles alter the shape of the tongue by: lengthening and shortening it, curling and uncurling its apex and edges, and flattening and rounding its surface: Superior longitudinal muscle; Inferior longitudinal muscle; Transverse ...
3 lis 2023 · Learn about the oral cavity, a space in the lower part of the head that contains the structures for mastication and speech. Focus on tongue anatomy, its muscles, mucosa, papillae and nerves.
9 maj 2020 · Learn about the tongue's embryology, structure, and functions, as well as the four pairs of extrinsic muscles that control its position and movement. Find out how the tongue is innervated, vascularised, and drained, and what clinical conditions affect it.
21 sie 2023 · Muscles. The tongue is formed by eight paired muscles: four intrinsic and four extrinsic. The intrinsic muscles' most particular feature is that they have no insertions in bone - they arise and insert within the tongue. By contrast, the extrinsic muscles do attach to osseous structures: either the hyoid bone, mandible, or styloid process.
