Sentence examples for tongue map from inspiring English sources

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tongue map

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A schematic map of the human tongue, labelling which parts are (supposedly) receptive to different tastes.

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Remember the tongue map.

And yet the mythical tongue map has endured for more than a century.

At some point you've seen a scientific tongue map showing this – they appear in cookery books as well as medical textbooks.

"Outside of China and Taiwan, there is no one else in the world who looks at the cow tongue map and says, 'oh yeah, that's legitimate," he said.

While the myth of the tongue map has been consistently and repeatedly debunked in controlled studies, evidence for regional differences in suprathreshold intensity has been noted by multiple research groups.

That is the basis of the tongue map that persists in so many textbooks today".

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As the eminent professor of biology, Stuart Firestein, explained in his 2012 book Ignorance: How it Drives Science, the tongue-map myth arose because of a mistranslation of a 1901 German physiology textbook.

A summary of the half-smooth tongue sole physical map data is presented in Table  3.

The half-smooth tongue sole physical map assembly was judged to be reliable preliminarily based on enough genome coverage of valid clones, the very low cutoff value, and the very low fractions of Q clones and Q contigs.

There are safety tips ("Children should only use a toothbrush at the sink," and if they are younger than 6, they should use a bit of toothpaste the size of a baby pea); a discussion of tongues, including the "geographic tongue" that resembles a map, with red patches and white edges; and even a look at the mineral-laden saliva that forms tartar.

By analysing the data, O'Brien was able to locate the most linguistically diverse tube station: Turnpike Lane on the Piccadilly line in north-east London, which has 16 languages spoken by more than 1% of the population there In addition to the tube map of tongues, O'Brien has just published a map showing the top occupations of people living near each tube stop.

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