Where it is
On the floor of the mouth, between the rami of the mandible, attached to the hyoid and to the chin.
- Layer
- Organs
- System
- Digestive system
- Region
- Head
What it is and what it does
The tongue has a root, a body and an apex and lies on the floor of the mouth, attached to the hyoid apparatus by the hyoglossus and to the chin by the genioglossus. In the dog it is wide and thin in front, thicker toward the root, very mobile, unpigmented, bright red, with a median groove; on its underside, beneath the mucosa, lies the lyssa, a fibrous cord peculiar to carnivores. Taste from the front two thirds travels through the facial nerve.
Worth remembering
Panting with the tongue out cools the dog; while it pants, it does not sniff.
Names
- Latin term: lingua.
- In Romanian: Limba (Romanian page).
In the atlas lessons
The head: what you see, what is underneath (6 min).
Questions from the atlas
"Find it on the drawing" questions whose answer is this structure; in the atlas you will find them in the question bank and in the lessons.
- Show the tongue, in the organs layer. (level 2)