The ninth cranial nerve which controls the pharynx, the salivary glands and part of the tongue.
One of a pair of mixed sensory and motor nerves, the ninth cranial nerves, essential to taste, sensation in the palate, secretion of the parotid glands, and swallowing.
The ninth cranial nerve that connects the brain stem to the back of the tongue, larynx (voice box), and salivary glands. The glossopharyngeal nerve performs both sensory and motor functions and is responsible for taste on the back third of the tongue, feeling and sensation in the pharynx (throat), swallowing, and the secretion of saliva. It also directs movement of the throat muscles and serves as the nerve supply to the middle ear and eustachian tube, which passes from the nose to the middle ear.
The ninth cranial nerve (IX), which supplies motor fibers to part of the pharynx and to the parotid salivary glands and sensory fibers to the posterior third of the tongue and the soft palate.
A mixed nerve that is sensory for taste and for the carotid sinus and body, and motor for secretion of saliva and contraction of the pharynx.
The glossopharyngeal nerve, also known as the ninth cranial nerve, serves the tongue and throat, carrying out both sensory and motor functions. It transmits sensations, particularly those related to taste, from the back of the tongue, manages saliva secretion by the parotid gland, and governs the movement of throat muscles.