Glossopharyngeal nerve palsy. An injury or stroke can cause this condition. The nerve's functioning is impaired, leading to ear pain, difficulty swallowing, and altered taste on the back of the ...

The glossopharyngeal nerve, which is also called the ninth cranial nerve, has both sensory (sensation) functions and motor (movement) functions in the body, as well as specialized sensory function ...

The glossopharyngeal nerve is a mixed cranial nerve with both sensory and motor components. It receives somatic sensory fibers from the oropharynx, posterior third of the tongue, Eustachian tube ...

Glossopharyngeal neuralgia is a rare pain syndrome caused by compression of your glossopharyngeal nerve. It leads to episodes of severe pain, usually on one side of the back of your throat and ...

She underwent a microvascular decompression craniotomy, a brain surgery where a surgeon works carefully to move the blood vessel pressing on the glossopharyngeal nerve. But it didn't work, and ...

Cranial Nerve IX, the glossopharyngeal nerve, innervates the parotid glands, two glands that sit in front of your ears and produce 10 percent of your saliva; and during eating, up to 25 percent.

The oral cavity and oropharynx are spaces defined by both hard and soft tissue ... which includes the lingual nerve (V3) to the anterior two thirds, branches of the glossopharyngeal nerve (IX) ...

The CN IX provides motor nerve supply to stylopharyngeus muscle and sensory innervation to oropharyngeal mucous membrane through the pharyngeal plexus (Source: Netter medical illustration with ...

GLOSSOPHARYNGEAL breathing, first described by Dail1 in 1951, is a technic for ventilating the lungs that does not require the use of the muscles of respiration. Instead, the muscles of the mouth a ...

An oropharyngeal (Guedal) airway can be used when there is obstruction of the upper airway owing to backward displacement of the tongue and when glossopharyngeal and laryngeal reflexes are absent. It ...

Cranial Nerve IX, the glossopharyngeal nerve, innervates the parotid glands, two glands that sit in front of your ears and produce 10 percent of your saliva; and during eating, up to 25 percent.