Usually means: Nerve controlling tongue movements, speech.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word hypoglossal:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. hypoglossal: Merriam-Webster
  2. hypoglossal: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. hypoglossal: Collins English Dictionary
  4. hypoglossal: Vocabulary.com
  5. hypoglossal: Wordnik
  6. hypoglossal: Wiktionary
  7. hypoglossal: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. hypoglossal: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. hypoglossal: Dictionary.com
  10. Hypoglossal: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Hypoglossal: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. hypoglossal: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. hypoglossal: Rhymezone
  14. Hypoglossal: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. hypoglossal: FreeDictionary.org
  16. hypoglossal: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. hypoglossal: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hypoglossal: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. hypoglossal: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Neurotrauma Glossary (No longer online)
  5. hypoglossal: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (hypoglossal)

adjective:  (anatomy, relational) Of or pertaining to the area under the tongue.
noun:  (anatomy) Ellipsis of hypoglossal nerve. [(neuroanatomy) Either of the 12th and final pair of cranial nerves which are motor nerves arising from the medulla oblongata and supplying muscles of the tongue in higher vertebrates.]

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