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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

A few months later we were shown a training film about glossopharyngeal breathing (“frog-breathing”) made at Rancho Los Amigos, the rehab center in Los Angeles. I learned how to do it ...

Retrochiasmal lesions downstream of the optic radiation, which result in cortical blindness. 2. Supra- or infra-nuclear injury to the hypoglossal or glossopharyngeal nucleus, which result in upper ...