HYPOGLOSSAL NERVE


Meaning of HYPOGLOSSAL NERVE in English

noun

also hypoglossal

( -s )

: either of the 12th and final pair of cranial nerves being a motor nerve arising usually from three roots in the medulla oblongata and supplying muscles of the tongue and hyoid apparatus in higher vertebrates but being absent in lower forms

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