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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. 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;
[syn: glossopharyngeal nerve, nervus glossopharyngeus, ninth cranial nerve]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

glossopharyngeal nerve n 1: 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 [syn: glossopharyngeal nerve, nervus glossopharyngeus, ninth cranial nerve]