Sentences with phrase «surface of the tongue»

The larynx is covered all over with taste buds and has 5 times as many as taste buds as the whole surface of the tongue.

Zasloff inspected cow tongues bearing slight wounds from grazing and found, sure enough, that wherever tissue was injured, the cells on the surface of the tongue were making more peptides.

The mouth has many different habitats — the nonshedding hard surface of the teeth, the soft, papillate surface of the tongue, the smooth inside of the cheek — and «what grows on the tongue is very different from what grows on the palate or on the teeth,» says Mager.

The OTUs of Lactobacillus and Bifidobacterium marker bacteria displayed as (A) the percentage of the total bacterial population and (B) the number of bacteria per ml in the saliva or per swab of the anterior dorsal surface of the tongue.

If the surface of your tongue isn't clean, it isn't going to know what's what in that 20 - ingredient salad!

Bowel symptoms like constipation, diarrhea, bloating, and pain are the hallmarks, but celiac can also cause you to lose the little hairs that dot the surface of your tongue.

It uses a spoon - like device called a tongue cleaner (although you could also simply use a spoon) to scrape the overnight accumulation of bacterial build - up, food debris, fungi, and dead cells from the surface of the tongue.

Tongue scraping is a fast, painless process that accomplishes a LOT: removing dead skin cells, food particles, and microbes from the surface of the tongue, as well as boosting overall immunity and improving digestion.

If the body is not processing fluid as it should, the fluid accumulation will, in Chinese medical terms, turn into «dampness», represented by a thicker white coating on the surface of the tongue.

They usually live on the surface of the tongue.

The coating appears on the top surface of the tongue.

They expel excess heat as moisture on the surface of their tongue evaporates when it hangs out of their mouth.

Not exact matches

Though I have no desire to deprive experts of their pleasures and I do understand the joys of fluency in a another tongue, in terms of expediting interpersonal contactual points in time, the aspects of which appear on first examination to be of a nature so non-effective as to be thought hardly worth facilitating, hopefully, the sum of these co-optations, possibility-wise, are thought to be so negligible, that while on the surface appearing deep, in terms of clarity what I have said is not.

Other newborn reflexes include the Babinski reflex (her big toe bends back and the other toes fan out when the sole of her foot is firmly stroked), the step reflex (she appears to take steps or dance when her feet touch a solid surface), and the tongue - thrust reflex (she pushes his tongue out when something is placed on it).

Normal bacteria live in the mouth and interact with leftover food particles — between the teeth, at the gum line, on the tongue, or on the surface of the tonsils at the back of your child's throat.

Satellites had spotted cold tongues of surface water extending westward from the South American coast, an indicator of a strong La Niña, El Niño's opposite number.

Not to science, though: the taste has recently been traced to a single receptor on the surface of cells on your tongue.

The filtering of food items is assisted by hairy structures called lamellae which line the mandibles, and the large rough - surfaced tongue.

Liquid at the surface rises with the retreating tongue, which pulls it up into a column of fluid.

This occurred when, during initial tongue protrusion, one of the groove tips adhered to the feeder wall before the tip reached the surface of the nectar pool and the groove tip bent as the tongue continued to move forward.

As it happens, the same goes for other hairy - tongued nectar feeders, such as honeybees and honey possums, which the researchers found also exhibit optimal «viscous entrainment,» which refers to the amount of fluid that hairy surfaces can drag up from a bath.

The elegant surface fizz — a boiling fumarole of rising and collapsing bubbles — launches thousands of golden droplets into the air, conveying the wine's enticing flavors and aromas to tongue and nostrils alike.

Barry Schonwetter and colleagues at the Magainin Research Institute, a private laboratory run by the drugs company Magainin Pharmaceuticals in Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania, took cells from the surface of cows» tongues and used organic solvents to extract several chemicals.

The tongues of most mammals hold taste receptors — proteins on the cellular surface that bind to an incoming substance, activating the cell's internal workings that lead to a signal being sent to the brain.

Furthermore, a deeper upper layer of warm surface water may weaken the cold tongue if the Ekman pumping doesn't reach down below the thermocline to bring up colder water, and weakened trade winds would have a similar effect through reduced Ekman pumping near the equator.

Brush for at least two minutes, and scrub all surfaces of your teeth and tongue.

Doctors told him that his high tongue and narrow airways were part of the problem and, at 5» 10» and 220 pounds, that the extra weight he was carrying brought it to the surface.

«The cat's abrasive tongue tends to remove plaque from the inner surfaces of the teeth, reducing the need for brushing these surfaces.»

In the American Kennel Club chow chow breed standard, the top surface and edges of the tongue must be solid blue - black, the darker the better.

Included in this evaluation are all surfaces of the tooth, other structures in the mouth (i.e tongue, lymph nodes, and larynx), and the gingiva.

Panting allows evaporation of water and heat across the moist surfaces of the lungs, tongue, and surfaces within the mouth.

The sad news is that your dog has only about 5 % of his body surface that is capable of releasing heat — his mouth and tongue.

The majority of the lesions are on the outer (cheek) surface of the tooth, however they can also seen on the inside (tongue) side of the tooth as well.

This is because tiny backward - slanted projections (papillae) on the surface of her rough tongue propel the indigestible hair down her throat and into her stomach.

This increases the surface area of the tongue and allows for more evaporation to happen, which helps keep your dog cool.

Since plaque and tartar begin forming on the outside (cheek) surfaces of the teeth, it is usually not necessary to open the mouth and brush the tongue side.

When things like Duke Nukem 3D surfaced they added a bit more realism to the genre but then also added some over the top kills on space aliens, some great tongue in cheek humour and of corse some bad ass attitude.

The totemic figure Trefoil is made out of pinecones and jacaranda logs, joined together by a tongue and groove construction that echoes the surface of the pinecones, breaking the branch down to its elemental particles.

As for the tongues, those are included in Carissa Rodriguez's large - scale lingual photographs — uncomfortable close - ups of the organ in question, covered in marker annotations pointing out imperfections and problem areas in each fleshy surface.

There is a formal equivalence between the tongues of flame rhythmically licking away at the reproductions of Caravaggio and Rembrandt, and the orange ripples of light moving up and down the surface of Azari and Karimi's projection painting «Autumn» (2007 - 2008).

Acupuncture and TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) use the tongue's appearance to diagnose overall internal health, and Rodriguez uses that connection to explore the physical demands of being an artist as well as the play between surface and depth.

Furthermore, a deeper upper layer of warm surface water may weaken the cold tongue if the Ekman pumping doesn't reach down below the thermocline to bring up colder water, and weakened trade winds would have a similar effect through reduced Ekman pumping near the equator.

For the Ekman pumping (one good example of the Ekman pumping is the so - called «cold tongue» near in the eastern part of the Pacific near the Equator), the stability is not so important, but rather the depth of the upper warm surface layer.

Numerous processes contribute to this, including the removal of buttressing ice shelves (i.e., ice tongues floating on water but in places anchored on islands or underwater rocks) or the lubrication of the ice sheet base by meltwater trickling down from the surface through cracks.

Mixing of cold, nutrient rich, sub-surface water with warm surface water creates the wind and current feedbacks drive the cold tongue across the Pacific.