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taste bud

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taste bud
any of the elevated oval-shaped sensory end organs on the surface of the tongue, by means of which the sensation of taste is experienced

taste bud [′tāst ‚bəd]
(anatomy)
An end organ consisting of goblet-shaped clusters of elongate cells with microvilli on the distal end to mediate the sense of taste.


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A Unfortunately, as people get older, taste buds begin to wear out and with this the sense of taste.
But one of his friends in the BJP has been able to tempt Nitish's taste buds.
They also measured the number and shape of a particular type of taste bud called the fungiform papillae.
 
 
 
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