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Hypoglossal

noun
1.
Supplies intrinsic muscles of the tongue and other tongue muscles.  Synonyms: hypoglossal nerve, nervus hypoglosus, twelfth cranial nerve.



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... muscles, that he studied particularly the glands, and that he discovered those of the mesentery. He fixed the number of nerves at seven; he observed the palatine nerves, which he rated as the fourth pair; and described as the fifth the auditory and facial, which he regards as one pair, and the hypoglossal as ...
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