Hypoglossal nucleus
System
Nervous
SNOMED CT
47361005
Hypoglossal nucleus
Definition
Nucleus forming a longitudinal cell column in the medulla, close beneath the floor of the 4th ventricle, containing motor neurons that innervate the muscles of the tongue (Brodal, Neurological Anatomy, 3rd ed., 1981, pg 453).
Also known as hypoglossal nerve nucleus, hypoglossal nucleus, hypoglossal XII nucleus, nucleus nervi hypoglossi, nucleus of hypoglossal nerve, twelfth cranial nerve nucleus — per UBERON
The Hypoglossal nucleus is a part of the Nervous.