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Definition of Twelfth cranial nerve

1. Noun. Supplies intrinsic muscles of the tongue and other tongue muscles.

Medical Definition of Twelfth cranial nerve

1. The hypoglossal nerve enervates the muscles of the tongue. Lesions of the twelfth cranial nerve result in deviation of the tongue toward the paralysed side and thick speech. Synonym: cranial nerve XII. (27 Sep 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Twelfth Cranial Nerve

Literary usage of Twelfth cranial nerve

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Morris's Human Anatomy: A Complete Systematic Treatise by English and by Henry Morris, James Playfair McMurrich (1907)
"... Branches of tibial nerve, 9-48, 949 transverse, of cervical plexus, 914 of twelfth cranial nerve (hypoglossus), 988 from tympanic plexus, ..."

2. International Catalogue of Scientific Literature by Royal Society (Great Britain). (1907)
"2212 twelfth cranial nerve. 2220 Spinal Nerves. Connections and Functions of Roots. Spinal Gang'lia. Peripheral Distribution. (See also 0 4900. ..."

3. A Text-book of Histology by Frederick Randolph Bailey (1906)
"... IQ, solitary fasciculus; ,Vw/, nucleus of twelfth cranial nerve, A'//, root fibre of twelfth cranial nerve ; 22, external arcuate fibres; 2j, ..."

4. Normal Histology and Microscopical Anatomy by Jeremiah Sweetser Ferguson (1904)
"The Nucleus of the twelfth cranial nerve,—The four lower cranial nerves are given off from this portion of the ..."

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