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Taste Buds in Sagittal Section
These barrel-shaped light areas (A) are taste buds embedded in the epithelial wall of a circumvallate papilla. Taste buds are also occasionally found on fungiform and foliate papillae as well as scattered throughout the mucosa of the soft palate, pharynx and epiglottis.
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A - taste buds |
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