The twelfth cranial nerve which governs the muscles of the tongue.
One of a pair of motor nerves, the twelfth cranial nerves, involved in swallowing and in movements of the tongue.
The twelfth cranial nerve (XII), which supplies the muscles of the tongue and is therefore responsible for the movements of talking and swallowing.
The 12th cranial nerve, which supplies the muscles of the tongue, together with some others lying near it. This nerve is responsible for movements required for swallowing and talking.
A motor nerve to the intrinsic and extrinsic muscles of the tongue. It emerges from the brainstem between the pyramid and the olive as a row of pure motor rootlets. These axons merge, and the hypoglossal nerve exits the brain through the hypoglossal canal. The nerve drops under the mandible and then rises into the tongue, it is joined by motor axons from spinal nerves Cl and C2 and sensory axons from C2.