taste bud

a goblet-shaped structure, 30 × 50 μm, about 6,000 of which occur in the human mouth. Each bud is a collection of about 50 taste cells arranged like sections of an orange. At its apex is a taste pore through which each taste cell sends a microvillus studded with receptor proteins to sample the environment.

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Psychology term of the day

November 19th 2024

straight

1. adj. a colloquial term for heterosexual.

2. n. slang for a heterosexual person.