KROK 1 2014 – Question 61 · KROK (Medicine) · Histology, Cytology, and Embryology
A 22-year-old female student consulted a physician about fever up to 38°C, weakness, sore throat. Objectively: there is white coating of the tongue. What histological structures of the tongue are involved in the formation of this coating?
- A. Epithelium of the fungiform papillae
- B. Epithelium of the foliate papillae
- C. Connective-tissue base of all the lingual papillae
- D. Epithelium of the filiform papillae
- E. Epithelium of the circumvallate papillae
Hint
A tongue coating is a surface build-up, so think about which superficial tissue layer and which type of projection on the tongue dorsum can retain shed cells, debris and microbes.
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