hypoglossal
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- adjective
- /ˌhaɪpəˈɡlɑsəl/
- Specialized
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hipogloso
- Injury to the hypoglossal nerve can lead to difficulty in swallowing and speaking.
- hypoglossal nerve
Examples
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The hypoglossal nerve controls the movements of the tongue during speech.
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The marginal mandibular, lingual, and hypoglossal nerves were identified and preserved.
Academic text (1996) -
To find the hypoglossal nerve, follow it backward...
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Following surgery, the patient demonstrated vagal and hypoglossal nerve deficits.
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Medially, it is related to the lingual and hypoglossal nerves as they lie on the hyoglossus muscle.
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The hypoglossal nerve is closely adherent... to the inferior ganglion of the vagus.
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Intraoperative findings confirmed tumor involvement of the left lingual artery and the left hypoglossal nerve.
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The fistula would then descend, after looping over the hypoglossal nerve, to open in the skin of the neck at the anterior lower portion of the sternocleidomastoid muscle.
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The branchial tract then courses superiorly over the hypoglossal nerve and descends posteriorly to the common carotid artery.
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The right and left lingual arteries were subsequently ligated and divided, and resection of the subtotal tongue base with preservation of the right hypoglossal nerve was completed.
Academic text (2003)
Compounds
Surface Forms
Morphology
hypoglossal = glossal (opaque) = hypo + gloss + al
The word is built from the classical prefix hypo- and a tongue-related base, but the base element is not transparent for average learners.
Etymology
The adjective hypoglossal comes from Greek parts hypo- meaning 'under' and glossa meaning 'tongue', the same 'gloss' you see in glossary. So something called hypoglossal is 'under the tongue', for example the nerve that moves the tongue.