100 apnea patients in a study to see if so-called hypoglossal nerve stimulation really works.    From Wordnik.com.  [Breaking News: CBS News] Reference

The motor nerve of the tongue is the ninth pair, the hypoglossal.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Practical Physiology] Reference

Ninth or hypoglossal nerve distributed to the muscles of the tongue.    From Wordnik.com.  [Surgical Anatomy] Reference

Above the point F, is seen the glosso-pharyngeal nerve; below F, is seen the hypoglossal nerve.    From Wordnik.com.  [Surgical Anatomy] Reference

Exogenous serotonin at the hypoglossal motor nucleus (HMN) stimulates genioglossus (GG) muscle activity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vytorin: Dis-Enhance-d | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.] Reference

The twelfth pair, the hypoglossal, are also motor, pass to the muscles of the tongue, and help control the delicate movements in the act of speech.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Practical Physiology] Reference

—The branches of distribution of the hypoglossal nerve are: 8.    From Wordnik.com.  [IX. Neurology. 5l. The Hypoglossal Nerve] Reference

There are no spinal accessory nor hypoglossal nerves to the brain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata] Reference

The hypoglossal nerve has been displaced downward in this preparation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Illustrations. Fig. 559] Reference

The hypoglossal nerve (Figs. 794, 795) is the motor nerve of the tongue.    From Wordnik.com.  [IX. Neurology. 5l. The Hypoglossal Nerve] Reference

The hypoglossal is very distinctly seen on opening the skin beneath the hyoid plate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata] Reference

It is seen curving round anterior to the hypoglossal nerve, and lying rather deeper in dissection.    From Wordnik.com.  [Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata] Reference

A minute filament descends and joins the hypoglossal nerve as it winds around the occipital artery.    From Wordnik.com.  [IX. Neurology. 5j. The Vagus Nerve] Reference

Later the hypoglossal artery atrophies and the vertebral is connected with the first segmental artery.    From Wordnik.com.  [V. Angiology. 3. Development of the Vascular System] Reference

In front of each condyle is the canal for the passage of the hypoglossal nerve and a meningeal artery.    From Wordnik.com.  [II. Osteology. 5c. The Exterior of the Skull] Reference

XII., the hypoglossal, runs out of the skull by the condylar foramen (c.f.), is motor, crosses the roots of XI.    From Wordnik.com.  [Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata] Reference

The hypoglossal nerve is the twelfth cranial nerve that is located along the side of the neck and leads to the tongue.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medgadget] Reference

At the base of either condyle the bone is tunnelled by a short canal, the hypoglossal canal (anterior condyloid foramen).    From Wordnik.com.  [II. Osteology. 5a. The Cranial Bones. 1. The Occipital Bone] Reference

The second pair of segmental arteries accompany the hypoglossal nerves to the brain and are named the hypoglossal arteries.    From Wordnik.com.  [V. Angiology. 3. Development of the Vascular System] Reference

The hypoglossal nerve crosses the first part of the lingual artery, but is separated from the second part by the Hyoglossus.    From Wordnik.com.  [VI. The Arteries. 3a. 2. The External Carotid Artery] Reference

Attached to this is the stimulation lead, which is tunnelled under the skin up to the hypoglossal nerve underneath the jawbone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home | Mail Online] Reference

The hypoglossal nerve crosses both the internal and external carotids above, curving around the origin of the occipital artery.    From Wordnik.com.  [VI. The Arteries. 3a. 3. The Triangles of the Neck] Reference

It passes downward and backward over the hypoglossal nerve, and enters the substance of the muscle, in company with the accessory nerve.    From Wordnik.com.  [VI. The Arteries. 3a. 2. The External Carotid Artery] Reference

Below the mandible it receives the submental, palatine, and submaxillary veins, and, generally, the vena comitans of the hypoglossal nerve.    From Wordnik.com.  [VII. The Veins. 3b. The Veins of the Head and Neck] Reference

The system, developed by the U.S. -based company Apnex, targets the hypoglossal nerve which controls the genioglossus muscle in the tongue.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home | Mail Online] Reference

At the base of the skull the glossopharyngeal, vagus, accessory, and hypoglossal nerves lie between the artery and the internal jugular vein.    From Wordnik.com.  [VI. The Arteries. 3a. 4. The Internal Carotid Artery] Reference

To prevent paralysis of the tongue the lingual nerve may be divided, and its proximal end anastomosed with the distal end of the hypoglossal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.] Reference

The jugular notch may be divided into two by a bony spicule, the intrajugular process, which projects lateralward above the hypoglossal canal.    From Wordnik.com.  [II. Osteology. 5a. The Cranial Bones. 1. The Occipital Bone] Reference

Hemi-atrophy occurs in various diseases of the central nervous system, as well as after injuries and diseases implicating the hypoglossal nerve.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.] Reference

—This ganglion is connected with the hypoglossal, the superior cervical ganglion of the sympathetic, and the loop between the first and second cervical nerves.    From Wordnik.com.  [IX. Neurology. 5j. The Vagus Nerve] Reference

The olive (oliva; olivary body) is situated lateral to the pyramid, from which it is separated by the antero-lateral sulcus, and the fibers of the hypoglossal nerve.    From Wordnik.com.  [IX. Neurology. 4a. The Hind-brain or Rhombencephalon] Reference

The muscles supplied by the oculomotor nerve arise from a single mass in the eye region; the lingual muscles arise from a common mass supplied by the hypoglossal nerve.    From Wordnik.com.  [IV. Myology. 2. Development of the Muscles] Reference

Its fibers arise from the cells of the hypoglossal nucleus, which is an upward prolongation of the base of the anterior column of gray substance of the medulla spinalis.    From Wordnik.com.  [IX. Neurology. 5l. The Hypoglossal Nerve] Reference

—The Communicating Branches consist of several filaments, which pass from the loop between the first and second cervical nerves to the vagus, hypoglossal, and sympathetic.    From Wordnik.com.  [IX. Neurology. 6b. The Anterior Divisions] Reference

The hypoglossal nuclei of the two sides are connected by many commissural fibers and also by dendrites of motor cells which extend across the midline to the opposite nucleus.    From Wordnik.com.  [IX. Neurology. 4e. Composition and Central Connections of the Spinal Nerves] Reference

The nucleus is serially homologous with the nuclei of the trochlear and oculomotor above and with the hypoglossal and medial part of the anterior column of the spinal cord below.    From Wordnik.com.  [IX. Neurology. 4e. Composition and Central Connections of the Spinal Nerves] Reference