Hypoglossal

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Hypoglossal \Hyp`o*glos"sal\, a. [Pref. hypo- + Gr. ? the
     tongue.] (Anat.)
     Under the tongue; -- applied esp., in the higher vertebrates,
     to the twelfth or last pair of cranial nerves, which are
     distributed to the base of the tongue. -- n. One of the
     hypoglossal nerves.


     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  hypoglossal
       n : supplies intrinsic muscles of the tongue and other tongue
           muscles [syn: {hypoglossal nerve}, {nervus hypoglosus}, {twelfth
           cranial nerve}]