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Palatine tonsil
Paletine tonsil

Circumvallate papillae
] Foliate papillae

Fungiform

Filiform papillae

(Figure 24)
The positions of the papillae on the human tongue

der runs: taste cell, taste bud, pa-
pilla. There are around 10,000
taste buds in the tongue. 122
(Figure 25) Vallate papillae con-
tain between 700 and 3,000 taste
buds, and foliate papillae from
320 to 2,950. There are around 3 to
10 taste buds in each fungiform
papilla. 123 The number of taste
cells in every taste bud varies be-
tween 50 and 100. 124
(Figure 25)
These figures are significant
Taste buds photographed under an
in demonstrating the balance in
electron microscope
creation. If the number of taste
cells and taste buds is below nor-

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