Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In ichthyology: A nerve of some fishes, as sharks, formed by the coalescence of the ventral or anterior roots of the last three cranial nerves, and extending to certain muscles of the shoulder-girdle.
- noun [capitalized] A genus of fishes, containing the halibut: same as
Hippoglossus . - noun In anatomy, same as
hypoglossal .
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One might almost speak of a lingual delirium in his case, as in that of the insane, when he pours forth all sorts of disconnected utterances, articulate and inarticulate, in confusion; and yet I often saw his tongue affected with fibrillar contractions as if the mastery of the hypoglossus were not as yet complete.
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Quite similar fibrillar movements seem to be made by the tongue in bulbar paralysis, and in the case of dogs and guinea-pigs whose hypoglossus has been severed.
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Remarkably, ChAT + neurons from adjacent hypoglossus nuclei showed neither alpha-synuclein accumulations nor GFAP increase
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• Conversely, one patient with pretherapeutic, unilateral hypoglossus paresis showed significant improvement of tongue movement after Re-188 HEDP treatment.
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To be sure, the anatomical localization of the impressive and expressive paths is not yet ascertained, so that for the present the centripetal roads from the acusticus to the motor speech-center, and the intercentral fibers that run to the higher centers, are as much unknown as the centrifugal paths leading from them to the nuclei of the hypoglossus; but that the speech-center discovered by Broca is situated in the posterior portion of the third frontal convolution (in right-handed men on the left, in left-handed on the right) is universally acknowledged.
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