Imagine a caterpillar with soft, fancy, velvety skin; that’s what a velvet worm looks like. However, unlike most caterpillars ...

Medically reviewed by Soma Mandal, MD Transient lingual papillitis (TLP), or "lie bumps," is a common inflammatory condition ...

Armed with a bottle of blue dye No. 1 and a Q-tip, I paint my tongue cobalt, swish some water in my mouth and spit ... called fungiform papillae, appear inside a circle a quarter-inch in diameter ...

Medical term: Papillae are small bumps on our tongue ... Canker sores Canker sores are white lesions inside the mouth that are typically painful, says Sage Pollack, DMD, dentist and founder ...

They’re called papillae and they’re the usual home of our taste buds, which react to the different flavours in food when they reach our mouth. However, the amount of papillae on our tongue ...