The hypoglossal is very distinctly seen on opening the skin beneath the hyoid plate.
There are no spinal accessory nor hypoglossalnerves to the brain.
It is seen curving round anterior to the hypoglossal nerve, and lying rather deeper in dissection.
The lingual, external maxillary and superior thyreoid arteries, and the hypoglossal nerve are also liable to be divided at this level, but the main vessels of the neck usually escape.
Temporary Unilateral Paralysis of Tongue, from bruising of hypoglossal nerve during operation for tuberculous cervical glands.
Hemi-atrophy occurs in various diseases of the central nervous system, as well as after injuries and diseases implicating the hypoglossal nerve.
Spasm of the tongue sometimes occurs after injuries of the head implicating either the centre or the trunk of the hypoglossal nerve.
Froriep (1885) showed in sheep-embryos and in chicks that the hypoglossal nerve belongs to three proto-vertebrae posterior to the vagus region, which were true spinal segments.
The next three segments possessed no definable ventral root or muscles, and the seventh, eighth, and ninth segments possessed as ventral roots the hypoglossal nerve, with its muscular supply.
The vertebral spinal part--the region of the hypoglossal nerves.
The somatic muscles innervated by the spinal set of nerves, including in this term the spino-occipital or so-called hypoglossal nerves, are in Ammocoetes most sharply defined from all the other muscles of the body.
Lying immediately behind the vein is the vagus nerve; the spinal accessory passes downwards and outwards behind it, and the glosso-pharyngeal and hypoglossal nerves forwards between the vein and the internal carotid artery.
The inframaxillary branches of the facial, the hypoglossal and its descending branches, and the motor branches of the deep cervical plexus, are also liable to be injured.
In addition to the ordinary signs of aneurysm, the clinical manifestations are chiefly referable to pressure on the pharynx and larynx, and on the hypoglossal nerve.
Ninth or hypoglossal nerve distributed to the muscles of the tongue.
Above the point F, is seen the glosso-pharyngeal nerve; below F, is seen the hypoglossal nerve.
The glossopharyngeal passes along in front of the hypoglossal nerve and proceeds along the base of the tongue.
The hypoglossal and the glossopharyngeal nerves, both running alongside of the lingual artery.
At the sides of the occipital condyle each exoccipital is pierced by a pair of foramina, the more dorsal and posterior of which transmits the hypoglossal nerve.
Just external to the foramen magnum is a small foramen for the exit of the hypoglossal nerve (figs.
Slightly in front of and an eighth of an inch external to the hypoglossal foramen the cranial wall is pierced by a pair of foramina through which the tenth or pneumogastric nerves leave (fig.
Slightly in front of and ventral to the foramen magnum is a small foramen through which the hypoglossalnerve leaves the cranial cavity.
In a median longitudinal section of the skull the hypoglossal foramen is seen, and just in front of it a small foramen for a vein.
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