Key facts
- Innervates
- Genioglossus , hyoglossus , styloglossus , intrinsic muscles of the tongue
- Latin
- nervus hypoglossus
- Mesh
- D007002
- Ta98
- A14.2.01.191
via Wikipedia infobox
Research
6,287 papers- The Hypoglossal Nerve.Seminars in ultrasound, CT, and MR · 2023
- Hypoglossal Nerve: Anatomy, Anatomical Variations Comorbidities and Clinical Significance.Journal of long-term effects of medical implants · 2019
- Hypoglossal Nerve (Cranial Nerve XII) Stimulation.Otolaryngologic clinics of North America · 2020
- Hypoglossal Nerve Stimulation Therapy.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2022
- Hypoglossal nerve stimulation over-titration.Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine · 2024
via PubMed
Wikidata facts
- Part of
- nervous system
- Follows
- accessory nerve
- Image
- Gray794.png
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- Commons category
- Nervus hypoglossus
- name in kana
- ぜっかしんけい
- innervates
- transverse muscle of tongue
- NCI Thesaurus ID
- C12732
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Encyclopedic overview
The hypoglossal nerve, also known as the twelfth cranial nerve, cranial nerve XII, or simply CN XII, is a cranial nerve that innervates all the extrinsic and intrinsic muscles of the tongue except for the palatoglossus, which is innervated by the vagus nerve.
CN XII is a nerve with a sole motor function. The nerve arises from the hypoglossal nucleus in the medulla as a number of small rootlets, pass through the hypoglossal canal and down through the neck, and eventually passes up again over the tongue muscles it supplies into the tongue.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “hypoglossal nerve” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.