tongue movement
Lick or waggle
Tongue movement refers to the motion or positioning of the tongue, whether voluntary or involuntary.
In speech therapy and linguistics, it describes how the tongue articulates sounds: The child struggled with tongue movement for certain consonants.
In medicine, abnormal tongue movement may indicate neurological conditions.
The term also appears in discussions of eating, swallowing, or oral hygiene techniques.
- lickPass tongue over
- swallowSend down the throat
- tasteFlavor perception ability
- taste budsFlavor-detecting tongue cells
- curlSpiral or loop form
flick · roll · articulation · speech · savor · slurp · thrust · wiggle · palate · teeth · lips · chew · enunciate · lisp · French kiss · lap · probe · stick out