A microscope image of taste buds in a mouse tongue shows taste cells with TRPM4 ion channels highlighted in red. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news ...

Medically reviewed by Soma Mandal, MD Transient lingual papillitis (TLP), or "lie bumps," is a common inflammatory condition that affects the fungiform papillae— the tiny bumps on your tongue's ...

The tongue is covered in lots of little bumps. On the walls and grooves of these bumps are thousands of tiny taste buds, too small for the human eye to see. The buds sense the taste of everything ...

The tongue-- sorry, the tongue ... Most people think those are our taste buds, but they're actually the papillae, which help grip your food. In the tips of those papillae are where our 10,000 ...