The hypoglossal canal is a foramen in the occipital bone of the skull. It is hidden medially and superiorly to each occipital condyle. It transmits the...
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The nerve arises from the hypoglossal nucleus in the medulla as a number of small rootlets, pass through the hypoglossal canal and down through the neck...
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Posterior cranial fossa (section Hypoglossal canal)
at the anterolateral margins of the foramen magnum and transmits the hypoglossal nerve (CN XII). Also visible in the posterior cranial fossa are depressions...
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Origin of speech (section Hypoglossal canal)
The hypoglossal nerve plays an important role in controlling movements of the tongue. In 1998, a research team used the size of the hypoglossal canal in...
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plexus of hypoglossal canal is a small venous plexus surrounding the hypoglossal nerve (cranial nerve XII) as it passes through the hypoglossal canal.[betterĀ sourceĀ needed]...
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the base of either condyle the bone is tunnelled by a short canal, the hypoglossal canal (anterior condyloid foramen). This begins on the cranial surface...
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the base of either condyle the bone is tunnelled by a short canal, the hypoglossal canal. Fracture of an occipital condyle may occur in isolation, or...
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sternocleidomastoid muscles in the neck and shoulder. The hypoglossal nerve (XII) exits the skull using the hypoglossal canal in the occipital bone. The cranial nerves...
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meningeal arteries (from the ascending pharyngeal artery through hypoglossal canal) C. meningeal arteries (from occipital artery through jugular or mastoid...
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plexus Uterine venous plexus Vaginal venous plexus Venous plexus of hypoglossal canal Vesical venous plexus Drake, Richard; Vogl, A. Wayne; Mitchell, Adam...
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