somatic motor nucleus

n.

Any of the motor nuclei innervating the tongue and external eye muscles.

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Words nearby somatic motor nucleus

somatic cell, somatic cell nuclear transfer, somatic death, somatic delusion, somatic motor neuron, somatic motor nucleus, somatic mutation, somatic mutation theory of cancer, somatic nerve, somatic nervous system, somatic reproduction
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