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taste bud

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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