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The results of this study showed that the tongue of the adult Iraqi domestic cat is
divided into three regions of apex, body and root. The dorsal surface of all regions possesses
five types of lingual papillae, two mechanical which are filiform and cylindrical papillae,
while the other three types are taste papillae which are foliate, fungiform and circumvallate
papillae, while these papillae are absent on its ventral surface. The histological examination
of all tongue areas revealed that it consisted of three tunica, the tunica mucosa and the tunica
submucosa (the lamina propria) and the tunica muscularis. The tunica mucosa consisted of
the epithelial lining, which is a stratified squamous epithelial tissue covering the lingual
papillae, a
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