Tongue Coating: white tongue coat, white like powder tongue coat, white like snow tongue coat, yellow tongue coat, dirty yellow tongue coat, simultaneous white and yellow tongue coating, gray tongue coat, black tongue coat, half yellow, half white (longitudinally), yellow root with a white tip, black in the centre, white and slippery on the sides.
Tongue Body Cracks: short horizontal cracks, long horizontal crack and transverse cracks on the tongue, transverse cracks behind the tip, very deep ventral cracks with other smaller cracks, cracks like ice floes, vertical cracks in the middle of the tongue, irregular cracks.
Tongue Coat Root: tongue coat has root and
tongue coat has no root.
Shape: stiff, flaccid, swollen big or enlarged tongue, half the tongue is swollen, hammer-shaped, local swelling on one side, swollen sides, swollen between the tip and the central surface, swollen edges, swollen tip, short and contracted, long, thin, front swollen.
Thickness: thin coating, thick coating, peeled, mirrored, shiny, no coating.
Colour: bluish purple or reddish purple tongue body, red tongue body, scarlet tongue body, dark red tongue body, pale tongue body, green tongue body.
Texture: rough or tender texture, red spots, white spots, black spots, ulcerated tongue body, numb tongue body, loose tongue body, deviated tongue body, moving, rolling, wagging, playful tongue body, rolled tongue body, teeth marks on tongue body (scalloped), quivering or trembling tongue body, sore-covered tongue body.