Crossword-Solution: GLOSSO 6 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

The razor had passed through the glosso-epiglottidean fold, a tip of the epiglottis, and through the pharynx down to the spinal column.

The first perceives acid or electro-positive tastes through the two lingual nerves; the second detects alkaline tastes by the two glosso-pharyngeal nerves.

The _ninth_ pair, called the _glosso-pharyngeal,_ are mixed nerves, supplying motor filaments to the _pharyngeal muscles_ and filaments of the special sense of taste to the back portion of the tongue.

The _eleventh_ pair, also called _spinal accessory_, arise from the sides of the spinal marrow, between the anterior and posterior roots of the dorsal nerves, and run up to the medulla oblongata, and leave the cranium by the same aperture as the pneumogastric and glosso-pharyngeal nerves.

The ganglia situated over the esophagus of insects correspond to the medulla oblongata in man, in which originate the spinal accessory, glosso-pharyngeal, and pneumogastric nerves.