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tongue

mobile organ located inside the mouth
AnatomicalStructure class_of_anatomical_entity Q9614
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tongue

Summary

tongue is a class of anatomical entity[1]. tongue ranks in the top 4% of class_of_anatomical_entity entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,855 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • tongue's instance of is recorded as class of anatomical entity[3].
  • tongue is a type of heterogeneous anatomical cluster[4].
  • tongue is a type of particular anatomical entity[5].
  • tongue is a type of sensory organ[6].
  • tongue is part of mouth[7].
  • tongue is used for taste[8].
  • tongue is used for spoken language[9].
  • tongue is used for licking[10].
  • tongue is used for sticking out the tongue[11].
  • tongue's Commons category is recorded as Tongues[12].
  • tongue's Unicode character is recorded as 👅[13].
  • tongue's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Tongue[14].
  • tongue's Commons gallery is recorded as Tongue[15].
  • tongue's described by source is recorded as Gray's Anatomy (20th edition)[16].
  • tongue's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[17].
  • tongue's described by source is recorded as Desktop Encyclopedic Dictionary[18].
  • tongue's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[19].
  • tongue's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[20].
  • tongue's described by source is recorded as Yuzhakov Big Encyclopedia[21].
  • tongue's described by source is recorded as Small Soviet Encyclopedia[22].
  • tongue's described by source is recorded as Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language[23].
  • tongue's NCI Thesaurus ID is recorded as C12422[24].
  • tongue's different from is recorded as language[25].
  • tongue's arterial supply is recorded as lingual artery[26].
  • tongue's arterial supply is recorded as ascending pharyngeal artery[27].

Body

Works and Contributions

Things named for tongue include party horn[28].

Why It Matters

tongue ranks in the top 4% of class_of_anatomical_entity entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,855 views/month).[2] tongue has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[29] tongue is known by 9 alternative names across languages and contexts.[30]

Entities named for tongue include party horn[28].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Q87326116. wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . Foundational Model of Anatomy. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Q87326116. wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . Q87326116. wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . Q87326116. wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . Q87326116. wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . bartleby.com. Retrieved . bartleby.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [29] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [30] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 2d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Part of → mouth
    Instance of → class of anatomical entity
    Arterial supply → lingual artery, ascending pharyngeal artery
    Innervated by → hypoglossal nerve, glossopharyngeal nerve
    + 11 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|5 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 8981, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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