Human tongue filiform papillae, light micrograph

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Light micrograph of the dorsal surface of a human tongue showing, from top to bottom, the mucosa layer with many filiform papillae, the most numerous of the lingual papillae, and two fungiform 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 1 mm.

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Photo credit: © JOSE CALVO / SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
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Keywords: -, biological, biology, body, filiform, healthy, histological, histology, human, light, lm, micrograph, microscopy, mucosa, normal, papilla, papillae, tongue