The junction of the vagus and glossopharyngeal nerves is shewn in Pl.
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.
These are those already considered, the foremost of which are supplied by the IXth or glossopharyngeal nerves.
Immediately anterior to this glossopharyngeal segment is seen in the figures the segment supplied by the VIIth or facial nerves.
A description of the part of this referring to the vagus and glossopharyngeal nerves is given at p. 426.
There appears to be one root in the brain for the glossopharyngeal, and at least six for the vagus.
glossopharyngeal glos·so·pha·ryn·ge·al (glôs'ō-fə-rĭn'jē-əl, -jəl, -fār'ən-jē'əl)
adj.
Relating to the tongue and pharynx.
