'Hypoglossal' definitions:
Definition of 'hypoglossal'
(from WordNet)
noun
Supplies intrinsic muscles of the tongue and other tongue muscles [syn: hypoglossal, hypoglossal nerve, nervus hypoglosus, twelfth cranial nerve]
Definition of 'Hypoglossal'
From: GCIDE
- Hypoglossal \Hyp`o*glos"sal\, a. [Pref. hypo- + Gr. ? the tongue.] (Anat.) Under the tongue; -- applied esp., in the higher vertebrates, to the twelfth or last pair of cranial nerves, which are distributed to the base of the tongue. -- n. One of the hypoglossal nerves. [1913 Webster]