in current study, 63 samples of bat populations collected from differ regions were used for evaluating the geographic variations. twenty cranial and dental characters for traditional morphometric and landmarks method on the ventral, dorsal skull and mandible for geometry morphometric studies were used. statistical analyses of traditional morphometric and geometry morphometric data indicated low...

  Background: Geographic tongue is usually an asymptomatic inflammatory disorder of unknown etiology that affects the epithelium of the tongue. The cause of the disease remains obscure. Patients with an allergic background such as a personal of family history of asthma, eczema, and hay fever, of an elevated total serum immunoglobulin E level may be more likely to have a geographic tongue. The p...

Background & Aims: Benign migratory glossitis, or geographic tongue is an asymptomatic inflammatory disorder of unknown etiology that affects the epithelium of the tongue. Genetical disposition, allergic reactions, psoriasis, stress, consumption of particular foods, pernicious anemia, acquired immunodeficiency, psychological disorders, lithium consumption are some of the conditions that are ass...