1 They are fungiform papillae—"mushroom-shaped nipples," to any Latin speakers out there—and each houses 50 to 100 buds.

2 Objective:To investigate the changes of fungiform Papillae following injury to lingual nerve.

3 The taste buds of fungiform papillae are not so developed and filiform papilla are long and thick.

4 Conclusion:(1)The fungiform papilla as well as taste bud depends on the lingual nerve.

5 The fungiform papilla has good ability to regenerate. whether the degenerated fungiform papilla can regenerate is relative to the injured degree and repair of lingual nerve.

6 Fungiform papilla height and width and the number of fungiform papillae per slice showed no change.

7 Methods The taste threshold, magnitude matching and the number of the fungiform papillae on tongue were evaluated and compared between the menopause females and younger females.

8 The paper proposes a bilevel-segmentation scheme according to the shape feature of the fungiform papilla, and states the whole processing sequence in detail.

9 Results There were changes in the number of dark cells per bud instead in the number of buds per fungiform papilla, the number of cells per bud.