[8] This is a painful condition and requires aggressive antiviral treatment. The geographic tongue is perhaps one of the most challenging tongue disorders, despite its benign nature. As with many ...

Oblate lesions on the dorsum of the tongue are shown. The tiny "hairs" covering the unaffected regions in are the filiform papillae. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the ...

But it turns out that some health issues can show up on your tongue, too. Certain conditions can change its colour and even ...

These patches are smooth and red, often with slightly raised whitish borders. Geographic tongue sometimes can cause tongue ...

Geographic tongue is an inflammatory condition of the tongue that results in white and red patches which may have slightly raised borders that quickly change shape and position every few hours.

Once, at a party, a woman said she could tell everything she needed to know about my friend by looking at her tongue. My friend dutifully opened her mouth, and after a few moments of careful ...

This story appears in the September 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine. For sheer breadth of freakish anatomical features, the chameleon has few rivals. A tongue far longer than its body ...

A burned tongue is a common experience where the surface of your tongue is damaged when exposed to something hot. Usually, it is hot foods or drinks that burn your tongue. But other substances, such ...

After walking over 3.5 million steps on trips this year, our writer picked favorites, from ‘barefoot’ styles for cafe hopping ...

MBARI researchers have discovered a remarkable new species of sea slug that lives in the deep sea. Bathydevius caudactylus ...

Like other penguin species, emperor penguins are equipped with a spiky tongue for help when eating slippery fish ... but ...