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Glossopharyngeal Nerve

"Glossopharyngeal Nerve" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

The 9th cranial nerve. The glossopharyngeal nerve is a mixed motor and sensory nerve; it conveys somatic and autonomic efferents as well as general, special, and visceral afferents. Among the connections are motor fibers to the stylopharyngeus muscle, parasympathetic fibers to the parotid glands, general and taste afferents from the posterior third of the tongue, the nasopharynx, and the palate, and afferents from baroreceptors and CHEMORECEPTOR CELLS of the carotid sinus.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Glossopharyngeal Nerve" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Glossopharyngeal Nerve" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 12 publications over 9 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 2009
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