GLOSSOPHARYNGEAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does glossopharyngeal mean? 

• GLOSSOPHARYNGEAL (adjective)
  The adjective GLOSSOPHARYNGEAL has 1 sense:

1. pertaining to the tongue and throat

  Familiarity information: GLOSSOPHARYNGEAL used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GLOSSOPHARYNGEAL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Pertaining to the tongue and throat

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

throat (the passage to the stomach and lungs; in the front part of the neck below the chin and above the collarbone)

tongue (a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity)

 Context examples 

A non-neoplastic or neoplastic disorder affecting the glossopharyngeal nerve (ninth cranial nerve).

(Glossopharyngeal Nerve Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)

A disorder characterized by involvement of the glossopharyngeal nerve (ninth cranial nerve).

(Glossopharyngeal Nerve Disorder, NCI Thesaurus/CTCAE)

A very slender, longitudinal column of motor neurons in the ventrolateral medulla oblongata; its efferent fibres leave with the vagus and glossopharyngeal nerve and innervate the striated muscle fibres of the pharynx (including the musculus levator veli palatini) and the vocal cord muscles of the larynx.

(Nucleus Ambiguus, NCI Thesaurus)