Light micrograph of the upper surface of a human tongue showing, from left to right, the mucosa layer with many filiform papillae, the most numerous of the lingual papillae, a connective tissue lamina propria, and the muscle layer, with many intertwined striated muscle fibres. Haematoxylin and eosin stain. The scale bar corresponds to 2 mm.

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Keywords: -, background, eosin, filiform, haematoxylin, histological, histology, human, light, lm, micrograph, microscope, microscopy, mucosa, papilla, papillae, tongue, white