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Definition of Glossopharyngeal nerve

1. Noun. Sensory nerve to the pharynx and back of the tongue; motor fibers innervate muscles that elevate the pharynx and larynx; includes parasympathetic fibers to the otic ganglion.

Medical Definition of Glossopharyngeal nerve

1. The glossopharyngeal nerve enervates muscles involved in swallowing and taste. Lesions of the ninth nerve result in difficulty swallowing and disturbance of taste. Synonym: cranial nerve IX. (27 Sep 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Glossopharyngeal Nerve

Literary usage of Glossopharyngeal nerve

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

1. 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 ..."

2. Anatomy of the Cat by Jacob Ellsworth Reighard, Herbert Spencer Jennings (1901)
"The ninth glossopharyngeal nerve takes origin (Fig. 138, IX) from t side of the medulla, as described in the account of the brai Close to its origin its ..."

3. Medical lexicon: A Dictionary of Medical Science, Containing a Concise by Robley Dunglison (1866)
"... which anastomose, in a multitude of different directions, with filaments of the 47 glossopharyngeal nerve, of the superior laryn- geal branch, ..."

4. The American Journal of Psychology by Edward Bradford ( Titchener, Granville Stanley Hall (1893)
"Proof is also adduced that the root of the glossopharyngeal nerve does not contain any fibres of the special sense of taste. The route then for the sense of ..."

5. 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. ..."

6. A Text Book of Physiology by Michael Foster (1900)
"But it by no means follows from this that gustatory fibres pass straight both up the trunk of the glossopharyngeal nerve and up the trunk of the fifth nerve ..."

7. A Treatise on Human Physiology by John Call Dalton (1882)
"In the fauces and pharynx, the glossopharyngeal nerve is sensitive to certain impressions, which excite the muscles of the neighboring parts and bring into ..."

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