Glossopharyngeal: alternatives and connections

a person of Anglo-Saxon (especially British) descent whose native tongue is English and whose culture is strongly influenced by Englis…

A cranial development supposed to indicate a combative disposition.

Often applied, especially in the plural, to parts which are supposed to resemble a pair of legs; as, the crura of the diaphragm, a pai…

insects having usually a single pair of functional wings (anterior pair) with the posterior pair reduced to small knobbed structures a…

(chemistry) the total energy in an assembly of molecules is not distributed equally but is distributed around an average value accordi…

Connected with, or having its origin upon, the external surface of the body; -- especially applied to the feelings which originate at…

The narrow passage from the mouth to the pharynx, situated between the soft palate and the base of the tongue; -- called also the isth…

To perceive by the touch; to take cognizance of by means of the nerves of sensation distributed all over the body, especially by those…

The sense by which the mind, through certain nerves of the body, perceives external objects, or certain states of the body itself; tha…

Of or pertaining to the bony or cartilaginous arch which supports the tongue. Sometimes applied to the tongue itself.

Under the tongue; -- applied esp., in the higher vertebrates, to the twelfth or last pair of cranial nerves, which are distributed to…

The magnitude of a distributed force, as pressure, stress, weight, etc., per unit of surface, or of volume, as the case may be; as, th…

members of a pair of homologous chromosomes separate during the formation of gametes and are distributed to different gametes so that…

A quick and careless application of anything, as if by a stroke of the tongue, or of something which acts like a tongue; as, to put on…

Of or pertaining to the tongue; uttered by the aid of the tongue; glossal; as, the lingual nerves; a lingual letter.

Having the cranial cavity of medium capacity; neither megacephalic nor microcephalic.

Having a small head; having the cranial cavity small; -- opposed to megacephalic.

The opening through which an animal receives food; the aperture between the jaws or between the lips; also, the cavity, containing the…