Nervous system & sense organs
Glossopharyngeal nerve (IX)
Nervus glossopharyngeus (IX)
- System
- Nervous system & sense organs
- Regions
- Head, Neck, Trunk
- Side
- Left and right
- Part of
- Cranial nerves
DescriptionUnreviewed
The glossopharyngeal nerve, known as the ninth cranial nerve (CN IX), is a mixed nerve that carries afferent sensory and efferent motor information.
It exits the brainstem out from the sides of the upper medulla, just anterior (closer to the nose) to the vagus nerve.
The motor division of the glossopharyngeal nerve is derived from the basal plate of the embryonic medulla oblongata, while the sensory division originates from the cranial neural crest.
Continue reading on Wikipedia →
Source: Wikipedia · Text licence: CC BY-SA 3.0 · This text comes from the source data and has not been reviewed by a person yet.
Names
- Latin
- Nervus glossopharyngeus (IX)
- English
- Glossopharyngeal nerve (IX)
- French
- Nerf glossopharyngien (IX)
- Spanish
- Nervio glosofaríngeo (IX)
- Portuguese
- Nervo glossofaríngeo (IX)