I got out my pocket torch and shone it over the back of the tongue.

A rank, sweet smell, with a metal taste on the back of the tongue.

The taste buds are confined to the tip, the sides and the back of the tongue only.

Eating a healthy breakfast with rough foods helps clean the very back of the tongue.

He explained: "To be effective, you must scrape the very back of the tongue, which makes many people gag.

The back of the tongue would be lifted and pulled into the posterior of the throat.

It first intensifies on the back of the tongue, then leaves you all warm inside, while inferior hot food only sears your lips.

Then she eased the sheep's mouth open, and slipped the neck of the water skin past the back of the tongue.

Sulfur, the texture of clay, a taste like copper on the back of the tongue.

Suppose that one person says something like, "Can you taste that chalkiness on the back of the tongue?"

Medicines that are chewed, rather than swallowed, may cause a temporary metallic taste at the back of the tongue.

A hypoplastic gland may develop higher in the neck or even in the back of the tongue.

A child gags when he cannot swallow vigorously or efficiently to get the food from the back of the tongue into the pharynx.

Other parts of the mouth may also contribute to the overall odor, but are not as common as the back of the tongue.

The steam billowed more thickly around them the farther in they went, and left a distinct chemical taste on the back of the tongue.

And a type of tonsil tissue found at the back of the tongue is a potential target for prions.

It is especially effective against bacteria living at the back of the tongue, reducing anaerobic bacteria populations by about 43%.

Later, on the back of the tongue, you taste the cold marine underworld and instinctively reach for another warm, creamy slurp.

I hated to give her any liquid when she was still unconscious- "It's absorbed on the back of the tongue," Amos said.

Dr. Richter said people who failed to cleanse the back of the tongue would also fail to solve the odor problem.

A trough is then formed at the back of the tongue by the intrinsic muscles (XII).

Basic shape: ㄱ is a side view of the back of the tongue raised toward the velum (soft palate).

Emphatic consonants are pronounced with the back of the tongue approaching the pharynx (see pharyngealization).

The duct persists as a midline structure forming an open connection between the back of the tongue and the thyroid gland.

I kept up a gentle traction and very slowly the mysterious obstruction came sliding up over the back of the tongue and into the!