tongue

A muscular organ in the floor of the mouth. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the tongue is

A muscular organ in the floor of the mouth. The atlas records it as a sense organ at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the tongue is

It sits within the digestive and sensory systems. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What the tongue connects to

The atlas records 50 typed relationships for it, across 13 kinds of connection. part of digestive system, gustatory system and mouth, and 1 more.

Supply and innervation

Arterial supply: deep lingual artery and lingual artery. Venous drainage: deep lingual vein and dorsal lingual vein. Innervation: lingual nerve.

Also called

Also recorded as glossus. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001723, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: digestive system, gustatory system, mouth and sensory system.
• A kind of: organ.
• Attaches to: hyoglossus muscle.
• Adjacent to: oral opening.
• contains: anterior lingual gland, anterior part of tongue, body of tongue, dermal layer of tongue, dorsum of tongue and epithelium of tongue, and 18 more.
• inserts into: hyoglossus muscle, palatoglossus muscle, styloglossus, superior longitudinal muscle of tongue and transverse muscle of tongue.
• Develops from: digestive system, digestive tract, mouth and pharyngeal arch system.
• contributes to morphology of: digestive system, epithelium of tongue and tongue muscle.

Questions

Where is the tongue?

It sits within the digestive and sensory systems. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What does the tongue connect to?

Part of: digestive system, gustatory system, mouth and sensory system.

Is the tongue the same in other species?

Leumas holds the same relationship vocabulary for every species it carries, so where another dataset records this structure you can put the two side by side on /compare.