- Concept UI
- M0009311
- Scope Note
- The 9th cranial nerve. The glossopharyngeal nerve is a mixed motor and sensory nerve; it conveys somatic and autonomic efferents as well as general, special, and visceral afferents. Among the connections are motor fibers to the stylopharyngeus muscle, parasympathetic fibers to the parotid glands, general and taste afferents from the posterior third of the tongue, the nasopharynx, and the palate, and afferents from baroreceptors and CHEMORECEPTOR CELLS of the carotid sinus.
- Terms
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Glossopharyngeal Nerve
Preferred Term
Term UI
T017939
Date01/01/1999
LexicalTag
NON
ThesaurusID
NLM (1966)
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Cranial Nerve IX
Term UI
T017941
Date07/31/1996
LexicalTag
NON
ThesaurusID
NLM (1998)
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Ninth Cranial Nerve
Term UI
T017940
Date07/31/1996
LexicalTag
NON
ThesaurusID
NLM (1998)