by Frédéric Bernard, The Conversation Credit: CC0 Public Domain We’ve all experienced it: you’re in the middle of a conversation, searching for a word, a name, or a title, and… nothing. You know you know it—you can almost feel it—but it just won’t come. This phenomenon, known as having a word “on the tip of the...
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Eyes may be the window to your soul, but the tongue mirrors your health
by University of South Australia Credit: CC0 Public DomainA 2,000-year-old practice by Chinese herbalists—examining the human tongue for signs of disease—is now being embraced by computer scientists using machine learning and artificial intelligence. Tongue diagnostic systems are fast gaining traction due to an increase in remote health monitoring worldwide, and a study by Iraqi and Australian...
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This strange condition could explain why your tongue feels weird
By Kate Baggaley Updated: March 5, 2021 The tongue of a patient with burning mouth syndrome, which looks much like that of a person without the condition.Courtesy of Miriam Grushka The pain came without warning. It was February of last year, and the man was eating dinner. He’d just reached for a glass of wine,...