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| Glossopharyngeal Nerve Cranial Nerve IX | Ninth Cranial Nerve | Cranial Nerve IXs | Cranial Nerve, Ninth | Cranial Nerves, Ninth | Glossopharyngeal Nerves | IX, Cranial Nerve | IXs, Cranial Nerve | Nerve IX, Cranial | Nerve IXs, Cranial | Nerve, Glossopharyngeal 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 chemoreceptors of the carotid sinus. | |
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