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glossopharyngeal
[ glos-oh-fuh-rin-jee-uhl, -juhl, -far-in-jee-uhl, glaw-soh- ]
adjective
- of or relating to the tongue and pharynx.
noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of glossopharyngeal1
Example Sentences
The whole nerve-complex formed by the glossopharyngeal and the vagus nerves cannot of course be shewn in any single section.
The glossopharyngeal nerve alone becomes eventually separated from the succeeding branches.
The relation of the branches of the vagus and glossopharyngeal to the branchial clefts requires no special remark.
The mixed nerves to the internal branchial segments, equivalent in the vertebrate to the vagus, glossopharyngeal, and facial.
Immediately anterior to this glossopharyngeal segment is seen in the figures the segment supplied by the VIIth or facial nerves.
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