A swollen tongue may signal allergies, deficiencies, infections, or deeper health issues you shouldn't ignore.

Hairy tongue is a condition that arises due to changes in filiform papillae, tiny cone-like hairs that normally grow on the tongue. They can become dark and lead to hairy tongue in up to 13% of the ...

Itching your eye is not exactly easy when you only have four hard hooves. But as this adorable clip from the San Diego Zoo ...

“Normally, your tongue is covered with papillae. Papillae are tiny, hair-like projections that protect your tongue. People with geographic tongue have fewer papillae than normal. The patches may ...

“Normally, your tongue is covered with papillae. Papillae are tiny, hair-like projections that protect your tongue. People with geographic tongue have fewer papillae than normal. The patches may ...

When you remove this film, you're whisking away odor-causing bacteria along with it. The tongue is admittedly a germ-ridden place—not unlike a kitchen sink sponge when it comes to trapping microbes, ...

also known as “lie bump,” is a temporary inflammation of the tongue’s papillae. These are the tiny bumps on the upper surface of the tongue. To determine the cause of tongue bumps ...

“Imagine your tongue as a shag rug. Anytime you eat, food is getting stuck between those fibers, or what’s called the ‘papillae’ on your tongue,” Dr. Pia Lieb, founder of Cosmetic ...

In this type of condition, the normally tiny bumps on the tongue (called papillae) grow longer. Though this may occur after antibiotic treatment, there is often no obvious cause. They then become ...