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Abstract

This work was carried out on the heads of ten apparently healthy adult Egyptian domestic cats of both sexes, from ten to nineteen months of age. Manually dissected specimens conducted for studying the morphology and metrical aspects of the tongue of the adult Egyptian cat. Different regions of tongue, position, shape and density of the lingual papillae as well as the lingual muscles origins, insertions and actions are expressed by five figures to study the morphology of tongue. For metrical aspects of the tongue, this study supported by Charts and tables to demonstrate the length, average length, width, average width, thickness and average thickness of each part of the tongue. The obtained results were photographed using Nikon digital camera 20 mega pixel, 16X and discussed with their corresponding features of authors who performed earlier studies in other species. The nomenclature used was adopted according to the Nomina Anatomica Veterinaria (2005).