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tongue

mobile organ located inside the mouth
Class type of: heterogeneous anatomical cluster, particular anatomical entity, sensory organ Q9614

Facts

13 properties
Instance of
class of anatomical entity, organ type[5]
Subclass of
heterogeneous anatomical cluster, particular anatomical entity, sensory organ
Part of
mouth[6]
Has use
taste, spoken language, licking, sticking out the tongue[7][8][9][10]
Arterial supply
lingual artery, ascending pharyngeal artery[22][23]
Described by source
Gray's Anatomy (20th edition), Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Desktop Encyclopedic Dictionary, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Yuzhakov Big Encyclopedia, Small Soviet Encyclopedia, Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language[12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19]
Different from
language[21]
Innervated by
hypoglossal nerve, glossopharyngeal nerve[26][27]
NCI Thesaurus ID
C12422[20]
P14541
1zfoMA
Permanent duplicated item
Wikidata item[25]
Unicode character
👅[11]
Venous drainage
lingual vein[24]
🏷️ Also known as
en tongueṡ en tongue ar لسان بلعومي ar ملقط ar نتوء لساني ar اسان ar لسان cs jazyk da tunge de Zunge el Γλώσσα es lengua fa زبان fi kieli fr langue he לשון hi जीभ hu nyelv id Lidah it lingua
🔖 Identifiers · 54
Library of Congress authority ID
sh85135992
GND ID
4134301-3
OpenAlex ID
C2779744641
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Tongue.agr.jpg ↗
Australian Educational Vocabulary ID
scot/5085
BNCF Thesaurus ID
17668
BabelNet ID
00019439n
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
12048043g
Concepticon concept set ID
1205
DeCS ID
14449
Dewey Decimal Classification
573.357
Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID
472736
Show all 54 identifiers +42
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
science/tongue
Foundational Model of Anatomy ID
54640
Freebase ID
/m/0fjkt
Golden ID
Tongue-MA8X3
Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)
4924597
Great Russian Encyclopedia portal ID
iazyk-v-biologii-9c4e61
Harper's tag
tongue
ICD-11 ID (Foundation)
1769856759
ICD-11 ID (MMS)
XA1T19
IMDb keyword
tongue
Iconclass notation
31A22141
JSTOR topic ID (archived)
tongue
KBpedia ID
Tongue
Klexikon article ID
Zunge
Lex ID
tunge
MeSH descriptor ID
D014059
MeSH tree code
A03.556.500.885, A14.549.885
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
2.9B (2.8B–2.9B, n=4)
Museum-digital tag ID
18310
NALT ID
53559
NDL Authority ID
00575355
NL CR AUT ID
ph202581
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007541472405171
OmegaWiki Defined Meaning
5440
Personality Database profile ID
535375
SVKKL authority ID
0205460-jazyk-anatomie
ScienceDirect topic ID
agricultural-and-biological-sciences/tongue, medicine-and-dentistry/tongue, immunology-and-microbiology/tongue
TA2 ID
2820
TA98 Latin term
lingua
Terminologia Anatomica 98 ID
A05.1.04.001
Topic's main category
Category:Tongue
UBERON ID
0001723
UMLS CUI
C0040408
Vikidia article ID
es:Lengua_(anatomía)
WikiSkripta article ID
1747
WordLift URL
data.wordlift.io
WordNet 3.1 Synset ID
05308571-n
Xenopus Anatomical Ontology ID
XAO_0000446
YSA ID
Y102453
YSO ID
8981
Yale LUX ID
concept/c27b564c-b765-4f37-884d-10de4a583f20
Yle topic ID
18-213769

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🔗 Connections
← Uses 17
velar consonant, alveolar consonant, anilingus, dental consonant, dhikr, postalveolar consonant, French kiss, coronal consonant +9 more
← Expressed in 6
TERT, L3MBTL1, CA6, CDKN2A, CST2, CST4
Described by source 3
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language
Has use 3
taste, spoken language, licking
← Made from material 3
beef tongue, tongue as food, blood tongue
Arterial supply 2
lingual artery, ascending pharyngeal artery
Has these parts 2
taste buds, lingual papilla
Innervated by 2
hypoglossal nerve, glossopharyngeal nerve
← Anatomical location 2
lingual papilla, tongue cancer
Different from 1
language
Examples 1
radula
Named after 1
party horn
Part of 1
mouth
Subclass of 1
sensory organ
Subtypes 1
forked tongue
Topic's main category 1
Category:Tongue
Venous drainage 1
lingual vein
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Tongue
← Class of object(s) of occurrence 1
tongue splitting
← Different from 1
language
← Muscle insertion 1
inferior longitudinal muscle of tongue
← Physically interacts with 1
'Aql
← SNARC ID 1
Northamptonshire
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Summary

tongue is a class of anatomical entity[1]. tongue is a type of heterogeneous anatomical cluster[2], particular anatomical entity[3], and sensory organ[4].

Body

Works and Contributions

Things named for tongue include party horn[28].

Why It Matters

Entities named for tongue include party horn[28].

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

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

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

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

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 9h ago · Trummler12 · 2026-11-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → class of anatomical entity, organ type
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Instance of: organ type, #temporary_batch_1793714938205"
  2. 16w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 1zfoMA
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  3. 18w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-06-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → tongue
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: tongue, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289970723|tongue (#289970723)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix'n'mat"
  4. 20w ago · MariuszRokin · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    SVKKL authority ID → 0205460-jazyk-anatomie
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ SVKKL authority ID: 0205460-jazyk-anatomie, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259599|batch #259599]]"
  5. 23w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Part of → mouth
    Instance of → class of anatomical entity, organ type
    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 */ YSO ID: 8981, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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