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=== Function === | === Function === | ||
* Cranial nerve XII or simply CN XII | |||
* It provides motor control of the extrinsic muscles of the tongue, in particularly responsible for protruding the tongue | * It provides motor control of the extrinsic muscles of the tongue, in particularly responsible for protruding the tongue | ||
Latest revision as of 02:06, 24 September 2023
Function
- Cranial nerve XII or simply CN XII
- It provides motor control of the extrinsic muscles of the tongue, in particularly responsible for protruding the tongue
- It also supplies movements including clearing the mouth of saliva and other involuntary activities.
- The hypoglossal nucleus is involved in unconscious movements relating to speech and articulation.
- Briefly saying, its damage causes difficulty in speaking, eating and chewing.
Nerve damage
- Tongue fasciculations
- Tongue Atrophy
- Tongue deviatation to one side
- Tongue may feel Thick / Heavy / Clumsy, results in slurred speech
Hypoglossal nerve carries lower motor neurons that synapse with upper motor neurons at the hypoglossal nucleus.
Related disease
- Medullary stroke
- Multiple sclerosis
- Guillain-Barre syndrome
- Infection
- Sarcoidosis
- Progressive bulbar palsy: Difficulty with tongue movements, speech, chewing and swallowing caused by dysfunction of several cranial nerve nuclei.
- Motor neuron disease is the most common disease affecting the hypoglossal nerve.