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 A bar of iron costs $5, made into horse-shoes its worth is $12, made into needles its worth is $3500, made into balance springs for watches its worth is $300,000. Your own value is determined also by what you are able to make of yourself. 

Taste buds are predominantly located in:

# Taste buds are predominantly located in:

A. Circumvallate papilla

B. Filiform papilla

C. Foliate papilla

D. Fungiform papilla

The correct answer is A. Circumvallate papilla.

# Circumvallate papilla - Present in front of the V shaped sulcus terminalis

- Large in size and 8-12 in number

- Contain many taste buds

- Von Ebner's salivary gland ducts open into its trough

# Filiform papilla/ conical papilla 

- Keratinized threadlike and give the tongue a characteristic velvety appearance

- Smallest and most numerous papillae

- Contain no taste buds

# Fungiform papillae

- Mushroom shaped, numerous near the tip and margins of the tongue

- contain few taste buds

- Distinguished by their bright red color

# Foliate papilla

- Present on the lateral border of posterior parts of the tongue

- Contain taste buds

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Passavant’s muscle is formed by:

 # Passavant’s muscle is formed by:

A. Palatoglossus

B. Palatopharyngeus

C. Styloglossus

D. Superior constrictor

The correct answer is B. Palatopharyngeus.

The upper fibres of palatopharyngeus form a sphincter internal to superior constrictor. These fibres constitute Passavant's muscle, which on contraction raises Passavant's ridge on the posterior wall of nasopharynx, but Passavant's ridge is present within Superior constrictor. 

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Sensory supply of soft palate

 # The sensory supply of soft palate is from:

A. Glossopharyngeal and vagus nerve

B. Maxillary nerve and mandibular nerve

C. Glossopharyngeal nerve and maxillary nerve

D. None of the above

The correct answer is C. Glossopharyngeal nerve and maxillary nerve.

General sensory nerves are derived from: a) The middle and posterior lesser palatine nerves, which are branches of the maxillary nerve through the pterygopalatine ganglion and b) from pharyngeal branch of the glossopharyngeal nerve. 

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