The surface of your child’s tongue is covered with tiny, pinkish-white bumps (papillae) which are really short, fine and hairlike. When your child has a geographic tongue, it would look as though he ...

Noticing this in a child? Do not brush it off; call the paediatrician. Black and Hairy? Yes, That’s a Thing While it sounds weird, “black hairy tongue” is a real, though harmless, condition where the ...

Purpose To report outcomes of autologous simple limbal epithelial transplantation (SLET) performed for unilateral limbal stem cell deficiency (LSCD) at multiple centres worldwide. Methods In this ...

Department of “Promozione Della Salute Materno Infantile, di Medicina Interna e Specialistica di Eccellenza” “G. D’Alessandro” (ProMise), University of Palermo, Piazza Delle Cliniche 2, 90127 Palermo, ...

lvpei.org This study describes a novel surgical technique of limbal transplantation, which combines the benefits of existing techniques while avoiding their difficulties. Six patients with unilateral ...

The octopus’s disguise capabilities extend far beyond mere color changes. These cephalopods can dramatically alter the texture of their skin through specialized muscles called papillae. When activated ...

Urinary biochemical analysis (Table 1) showed no alterations. Numerous (>3) subepithelial HAP deposits were present in the papillae of this patient. Patient 2 was a 40-year-old man with a history ...

A team led by researchers at the University of Bristol is advancing the development of robot hands capable of human-like dexterity. Thanks to new funding from the UK’s Advanced Research and ...

It also ensures that the bird’s airway remains clear, preventing suffocation when swallowing larger prey. The inside of a cormorant’s esophagus is also lined with backward-facing bumps called papillae ...

The “hairy” name comes from another strange feature: during breeding season, males develop string-like dermal papillae containing blood vessels that may function as additional respiratory surfaces ...