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taste bud
taste bud A taste bud is a small oval sensory structure in a papilla of the tongue that extends through the full thickness of the epithelium.
A taste bud is a small oval sensory structure in a papilla of the tongue that extends through the full thickness of the epithelium. It contains sensory, supporting, and basal cells, and opens at the surface through a taste pore.