ninth cranial nerve

Questions about ninth cranial nerve

What is another word for ninth cranial nerve?

It depends which ninth cranial nerve you mean. In the sense “sensory nerve to the pharynx and back of the tongue; motor fibers innervate muscles that elevate the pharynx and larynx; includes parasympathetic fibers to the otic ganglion”, the synonyms are glossopharyngeal nerve, nervus glossopharyngeus. Across all 1 sense there are 2 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of ninth cranial nerve?

WordNet records no antonym for ninth cranial nerve. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for ninth cranial nerve come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

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• Full entry for ninth cranial nerveAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for ninth cranial nerveWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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