STRUCTURE OF THE TONGUE. 



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Fungiform Papillae. The fungiform papilla (Fig. 204) are 

 scattered chiefly over the sides and tip, and sparingly over the 



FIG. 202. 



Papillar surface of the tongue, with the fauces and tonsils (from Sappey). 1, 1, 

 circuruvallate papillae, in front of 2, the foramen caecum; 3, fungiform papillae; 4, 

 filiform and conical papillae; 5, transverse and oblique rugae ; 6, mucous glands at 

 the hase of the tongue and in the fauces; 7, tonsils; 8, part of the epiglottis; 9, 

 median glosso-epiglottidean fold, frsenum epiglottidis. 



middle of the dorsum, of the tongue; their name is derived 

 from their being usually narrower at their base than at their 



