Geographic Tongue Patterns (IMAGE)

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Geographic Tongue Patterns

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Oblate lesions on the dorsum of the tongue are shown. The tiny "hairs" covering the unaffected regions in are the filiform papillae.

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<i>New Journal of Physics</i>, 2015. Reproduced by permission of IOP Publishing.

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