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Definition of Glossopharyngeal
1. Adjective. Pertaining to the tongue and throat.
Definition of Glossopharyngeal
1. a. Pertaining to both the tongue and the pharynx; -- applied especially to the ninth pair of cranial nerves, which are distributed to the pharynx and tongue.
Definition of Glossopharyngeal
1. Adjective. Pertaining to both the tongue and the pharynx ¹
2. Noun. Any of the glossopharyngeal nerves. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Glossopharyngeal
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Glossopharyngeal
Literary usage of Glossopharyngeal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Anatomy: Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray, Thomas Pickering Pick (1897)
"Nuclei of the Vagus and glossopharyngeal Nerves.—These are known as principal
... The dorsal nucleus lies external to the vago-glossopharyngeal nucleus and ..."
2. Nervous and Mental Diseases by Archibald Church, Frederick Peterson (1919)
"A short outline of the glossopharyngeal is first given, ... DISEASES OF THE
glossopharyngeal NERVE. The ninth cranial nerve is still a source of anatomical ..."
3. Anatomy of the Cat by Jacob Ellsworth Reighard, Herbert Spencer Jennings (1901)
"The ninth glossopharyngeal nerve takes origin (Fig. ... It passes through the
jugular forami along with the glossopharyngeal and accessory nerves. ..."
4. The Gross and Minute Anatomy of the Central Nervous System by Hermon C. Gordinier (1899)
"Collaterals from the sensory end nuclei ot the vagus, glossopharyngeal, ...
The vagus and glossopharyngeal are mixed motor and sensory nerves, ..."
5. Monographic Medicine by Albion Walter Hewlett, Lewellys Franklin Barker, Milton Howard Fussell, Henry Leopold Elsner (1916)
"(k) glossopharyngeal Paralysis The leading features are loss of taste ...
Uncomplicated glossopharyngeal paralysis is so rare that its possibility is denied ..."
6. Anatomy, Descriptive and Applied by Henry Gray (1913)
"The glossopharyngeal nerve contains both motor and sensory fibres, and is
distributed, as its name implies, to the tongue and pharynx. ..."
7. Diseases of the nervous system: A Text-book for Students and Practitioners by Hermann Oppenheim (1900)
"There is no doubt, however, that the sensory pharynx is wholly innervated by the
glossopharyngeal. It also takes part in the motor innervation of the ..."
8. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"The glossopharyngeal Nerve (N. glossopharyngeus) This nerve is both sensory and
motor. It carries (1) the taste fibers for the posterior third of the tongue ..."
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