A healthy tongue should appear pink, moist, and covered with small bumps called papillae. When your tongue develops a white coating or discoloration, your body might be sending important signals ...

Medically reviewed by Soma Mandal, MD Transient lingual papillitis (TLP), or "lie bumps," is a common inflammatory condition ...

Medically reviewed by Brian T. Luong, DMD All of us have tiny hair-like structures on our tongues. These are not the same as ...

We all have bumps on our tongue. They’re called papillae and they’re the usual home of our taste buds, which react to the different flavours in food when they reach our mouth. However ...

“These are fungiform papillae, structures that hold taste buds. If you have a lot of them, you’re probably a supertaster,” she says. It might be a fun party trick to see whether you have a ...

How does bumpy skin hide a cephalopod? The business of papillae. Papillae are sections of the skin that can be deformed in order to change texture, and may work by a hydrostatic mechanism (Allen ...

The sea cucumber is nearly a foot long with shield-shaped tentacles and rows of papillae. Xiao Y, Xiao N (2025) ZooKeys The sea cucumber is also covered with tentacles and papillae, or fleshy ...

Lotus leaves are covered with bumps called papillae, which are themselves coated with randomly oriented wax rods or tubules 100 nm or so in diameter 3. The legs of water striders also have a ...

Some turkeys have multiple papillae and can grow more than one beard. It’s an uncommon, random occurrence that conveys no advantage to the birds, but they make a rare trophy for hunters.