A curious case was published by Dr. Yasir Harmad, in the New England Journal of Medicine.
The case was the presence of a 55-year-old woman who developed a black, hairy tongue after taking antibiotics for an infected wound.
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This condition refers when the tongue papillae grow more than normal and turn black. In this condition the papillae can grow between 12 and 18 millimeters, when the usual size is 1 millimeter.
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