is the tongue considered cartilage?
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The tongue is muscle tissue.
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NO!HIV is not transmitted through the saliva but if the tongue has a cut or sore then there is possibility of infection
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Cartilidge, ligaments, and tendons for normal people.  Srews, plates, and rods for adventurous types.  However, G.I. Joes and Barbies use superglue.
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Vocal cords and tongue
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Tongue action please.
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Hairy tongue (lingua villosa) is a commonly observed condition of defective desquamation of the filiform papillae that results from a variety of precipitating factors. The condition is most frequently referred to as black hairy tongue (lingua villosa nigra); however, hairy tongue may also appear brown, white, green, pink, or any of a variety of hues depending on the specific etiology and secondary factors (eg, use of colored mouthwashes, breath mints, candies).\nhttp://www.emedicine.com/derm/topic639.htm
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craniology is the study of skulls.\n\nSkull, term applied to the rigid cartilaginous or bony structure located anterior to the spinal column in all vertebrate animals, and serving to encase and protect the brain and to provide attachment for the muscles of the face and mouth. In lower vertebrates, such as cyclostomes and elasmobranchs, the skull is composed of cartilage throughout the lifetime of the organism; in teleost fishes and in more highly developed vertebrates, including humans, the skull is cartilaginous during embryonic and fetal life, becoming ossified early in postnatal life.
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Many "experts" will tell you,   "Geographic tongue is a common tongue problem that normally responds to topical steroids" they often add "antifungal and antibacterial medications may be used for symptomatic cases and topical or systemic cortisone or prednisone may also be effective".
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Chondroitinsulfate is used to treat osteoarthritis, but not as a pain releiver, as a joint repair product. Although a trachea is made of cartilage, they can make chondroitin sulfate directly in the lab from raw materials. If it is made from natural products it is made from shark cartilage . The article said the chemical process was higher quality. The article also said to take glucosamine chondroitin for better results. Again , it is not a pain medication, but a repair material.
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People in india are smart.  Scraping the tongue or brushing the tongue is a great idea.  A whole lot of bacteria can stay on the tongue in all of the grooves and papilla.  Keeping the tongue well cleaned, along with brushing and flossing, should keep your breath sweet.
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Masseters, Lateral and Medial Pterygoids, Platismus, Temporalis, Tongue.
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The tongue is the large bundle of muscles on the floor of the mouth that manipulates food for chewing and swallowing. It is one of the organs of taste. Much of the surface of the tongue is covered in taste buds. The tongue assists in forming the sounds of speech, and also plays a major role in sexuality, such as in the french kiss and oral sex.\n\nThe word tongue can be used as a synonym for language, e.g., as in the phrase mother tongue.\n\nIt is also examined and observed diagnostically in traditional Chinese medicine.\n\nThe tongue is made mainly of skeletal muscle and attached to the hyoid bone, mandible and the styloid processes of the temporal bone.\n\nThe muscles that attach the tongue are the extrinsic muscles of the tongue. Inside the tongue, there are four pairs of intrinsic muscles that can alter the shape of the tongue for talking and swallowing. Since it contains no supporting skeletal structures for the muscles, the tongue is an example of a muscular hydrostat, like an octopus arm.\n\nA muscular hydrostat is a biological structure, found in animals. It is used to manipulate items (including food), or to move its host about, and is made mainly of muscles, with no skeletal support. It performs its hydraulic movement without fluid in a separate compartment, as in a hydrostatic skeleton. The principle behind the hydrostatic skeleton is that water is effectively incompressible at physiological pressures. Therefore, a fiber-wound chamber full of water will act as a constant-volume system. What makes the muscular hydrostat special is that it relies on the same principle, but there is no water-filled cavity. Instead, the bulk of the organ is made up of muscle, which also has constant volume. Therefore, instead of a cylinder wrapped with muscle and connective tissue that changes its shape, a muscular hydrostat is a cylinder made of muscle.\n\nMuscular hydrostat is a term coined by Dr. William M. Kier in 1982 to characterize the arms of octopuses and the arms and tentacles of squid. In a paper published in 1985, he showed that other organs, such as mammalian and reptile tongues and elephant trunks, fit in the category as well.\n\n:P
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I didn't find much about that term, but what I did find suggested that it has something to do with the tongue.  Sorry I couldn't be of more help.
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The hyoid bone.  It is a U-shaped bone in the upper neck, at the base of the tongue.  It is the only bone that is not "articulated" to another.  It is also the one that gets broken when someone is strangled, but strangely enough, not when they hang themselves.
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The human larynx rests in a frame of cartilage bound by ligaments and muscles. At the front is the thyroid cartilage, creating the lump at the front of the neck, known as the laryngeal prominence or more commonly as the Adam's apple.\n\nThe larynx grows during puberty in males much more than in females, and as a result the Adam's apple is typically more prominent in adult men than in women or prepubescent girls or boys. This growth of the larynx is also the reason for the voice cracking in teenage boys.\n\nThe reason for the Adam's apple being more prominent in males is that the two laminae of the cartilage meet at an angle of 90° in males but that angle is 120° in females.\n\nFor some transwomen, the Adam's apple remains more prominent than desired, and this is sometimes remedied by a chondrolaryngoplasty (trachea shave), a type of plastic surgery to reduce the size of the Adam's apple.
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Here's an answer that wasn't copied and pasted from somewhere on the net...\n\nLong bones, which are the bones of your arms and legs, can be broken into two regions. The "knobs" located at both ends of the bone are called the epiphyses. The long, narrow portion of the bone is called the diaphysis. Located at each end of the bone between the epiphysis and diaphysis is a region called the epiphyseal plate.\n\nThe epiphyseal plate is more commonly referred to as the "growth plate". In a growing human, the epiphyseal plate contains many chondrocytes. The chondrocytes produce chondrin, which is the material that composes cartlidge. This new cartilidge lengthens the bone. Osteoblasts then convert this newly formed cartlidge into bone.\n\nIn adult humans who have finished growing, the epiphyseal plate has been completely replaced by solid bone. A quick x-ray can therefore determine whether an adult human has finished growing by the presence or absence of the epiphyseal plate.\n\nChondrocytes are also located in other parts of the body where cartlidge is present, like the nose, ears, larynx, trachea, and skeletal joints.
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Definitely the tongue. This is where the \n\ntastebuds are located and you can enjoy what \n\nyou are going to be digesting!