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Wonder what the world would be like if you were deprived of the delicious taste of food.



Wonder what the world would be like without a single syllable or word. No speech. In this world you will surely be happy that you have a tongue. We should be so lucky to have a tongue. In order to appreciate this wonderful organ, we should take great care of it.





The papule-shaped, small things on the tongue are called the taste buds. This is also responsible for giving the tongue its white color. Through time your taste buds lessen. The older one gets, the fewer taste buds you have. If you pay attention, elderly people enjoy sweeter foods, and the taste of these foods is stronger on the tongues of younger people.



Taste buds are there so that you are able to taste what you are eating.

The tongue is also responsible for one’s speech. People that have short tongues usually have a hard time talking and pronouncing certain words. This is the reason why the sounds that are produced are such a way that certain tongue positions are needed. Therefore, the oral structures that cause speech needs the help of the tongue to make the words understandable.





Anything can inflict cancer. Places that can be affected by cancer are the lymph nodes, the skin, the lungs and also the tongue. Cancer is caused by a mutation of the cell. In the mutation stage, the cell’s apoptotic property is retarded and apoptosis is stopped from occurring. This also means that the production of the cell will continue.



A person’s speech is impaired with tongue cancer, and this can be a very painful time.

Other tongue problems are a tongue sore and having tongue sores. A bacterial infection causes this. It is mild in nature and causes a mild irritation. Dealing with tongue problems can be hard, because they hold back your eating schedule.



It also becomes harder to communicate and talk. It can be concluded that even the smallest organ in the body and cause the biggest problems.  

The tongue is undoubtedly the most important organ a human being can have attached to his/her body. If there was no tongue, newscasters, radios, chefs, televisions, lawyers and other professions done orally will not exist. These things and these people might not seem important, but they actually are. The bottom line, without a tongue we cannot live.

 
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