The glossopharyngeal nerve, which is also called the ninth cranial nerve, has both sensory (sensation) functions and motor ...

Finally, she was diagnosed with glossopharyngeal neuralgia, a rare syndrome that causes pain in the throat, tongue, ear and tonsils. It and other conditions in the neuralgia family are nicknamed ...

The cranial nerves are vulnerable to damage during head trauma. Many of them run over the surface of the skull, protected ...

Three nerves carry taste signals to the brain stem: the chorda tympani nerve (from the front of the tongue), the glossopharyngeal nerve (from the back of the tongue) and the vagus nerve (from the ...

Supra- or infra-nuclear injury to the hypoglossal or glossopharyngeal nucleus, which result in upper motor neuron disease (lesions upstream of the medulla oblongata that can impact somatomotor, and ...

and attempt to spend time out of his iron lung to learn the complicated glossopharyngeal breathing technique, the medical term for frog-breathing. "He was scared of course of choking to death ...

Limited Midline Myelotomy for Intractable Visceral Pain: Surgical Techniques and Outcomes. Neurosurgery. 2017 Nov 1. Reddy GD, Viswanathan A. Trigeminal and glossopharyngeal neuralgia. Neurol Clin ...