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