What are tongues for?

Moment Of Um

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Kids & Family, Education For Kids

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🗓️ 29 August 2024

⏱️ 4 minutes

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So there’s this big, bumpy muscle inside of our mouths and we know it’s important and that we have to take great care of it. But what’s it even for? We asked Otolaryngologist Laura Orvidas from the Mayo Clinic to help us find the answer. Got a question that’s got you all tongue tied? Send it to us at BrainsOn.org/contact, and we’ll muscle an answer out of an expert. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0	From the brains behind brains on, this is the Moment of Um.
0:05.9	Um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um.
0:09.8	Moment of Um comes to you from APM Studios. I'm Anna Weggle.
0:14.4	Um.
0:16.1	Okay, do this with me.
0:17.8	La la la la la la la la la la la la la.
0:21.4	Now try it without your tongue.
0:23.6	Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
0:29.8	Now say the word lemon, lemon, lemon.
0:35.9	Now try it without your tongue.
0:38.2	Yeah, yeah.
0:39.8	Yeah, yeah.
0:43.0	Now blow a raspberry with me.
0:51.6	Okay, now try it without your tongue.
1:05.0	See, these are all things I know that I use my tongue for, along with licking ice cream cones, and doing sweet impressions of my dog.
1:08.0	Oh, I'm Cecee.
1:13.1	But the tongue is pretty unique compared to other parts of our body.
1:15.9	What is its most important purpose anyway?
1:23.7	Hi, my name's Molly, and my question is, why do we have tongues?
1:31.5	Hi there. My name is Laura Orvetus. I am a pediatric otolaryngologist at the Mayo Clinic,
1:39.1	and that means a ear, nose and throat doctor. The tongue is a mass of muscle tissue that's obviously in your mouth, and it has many functions. One is eating, helps you move the food around in your mouth,
1:46.5	mix it with saliva, and make it so that you can actually swallow it down. The next function of
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