Causes of Bumps on Tongue Most of the tiny red bumps that are on the tongue are referred to as papillae and they cover the total surface of the tongue. Most of them have taste buds which are the receptor organs for detecting tastes and then send the information over to the brain.
Definition of Proliferative. Proliferative: Growing and increasing in number rapidly. For example, the lymphoproliferative disorders are diseases in which there is malignant growth of lymphoid cells and of cells from the reticuloendothelial system (which take up and sequester inert particles).
Myeloproliferative diseases (or myeloproliferative neoplasms) are disorders in which too many of certain types of blood cells are made in the bone marrow, the spongy tissue inside the large bones in the body. These disorders include polycythemia vera, myelofibrosis, essential thrombocythemia, mastocytosis, and eosinophilia.