circumvallate

How To Use circumvallate In A Sentence

• In many of the fungiform and most of the circumvallate papillæ are peculiar structures called taste buds or taste goblets. A Practical Physiology
• Harden's Rebels had the city besieged, circumvallated and bottled in a double fosse. The Black Company
• There are only two circumvallated papillae in the posterior third of the tongue, one on each side of the midline, keeping an oblique position.
• Fortifications for the defence of Hull were granted license in 1322, in which year were begun the wall and ditch system which circumvallated the north, west and southern sides of the town, and which were to survive until the late 18th century.
• Unfortunately, the usability of the interface is simply too circumvallated to exploit it properly; content is more likely chanced upon than directed to.
• But, in between lengthy phrases and highly circumvallated metaphors, one finds precious gems of meaning
• The settlement is circumvallated by a stake-fence, so decayed that one may gain ingress at a dozen places.
• Eight to 12 larger mushroom shaped (circumvallate) papillae, each surrounded by a circular trough, lie at the back of the tongue in a V-shaped formation; these have on average 250 taste buds each.
• When she puts sweet onto the circumvallates, she's testing the taste nerve at the tongue's back: the glossopharyngeal.
• Few days ago I saw something on TV about circumvallate papillae and ever since then I am very interested in that.