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Hypoglossal nerve Moderate

Hypoglossal nerve has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

supplies intrinsic muscles of the tongue and other tongue muscles

2

Either of the 12th and final pair of cranial nerves which are motor nerves arising from the medulla oblongata and supplying muscles of the tongue in higher vertebrates.

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Broader Terms (hypernyms)
cranial nerve
Rhyming Words
verve terve curve lurve perve serve nerve merve kerve herve varve tarve larve harve carve surve swarve slurve sparve clerve
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