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lingual nerves

lingual nerves is the plural of lingual nerve.

Meaning of lingual nerve

Noun

lingual nerve (plural lingual nerves)

  1. A sensory branch of the mandibular nerve that supplies the mucous membrane of the anterior two thirds of the tongue and the floor of the mouth and responds to stimuli of pressure, touch, and temperature.

Questions about lingual nerves

What is lingual nerves the plural of?
Lingual nerves is the plural of lingual nerve.

Words near lingual nerves in the dictionary

  1. lingual artery
  2. lingual bone
  3. lingual bones
  4. lingual gyrus
  5. lingual nerve
  6. lingual nerves
  7. lingual tonsil
  8. lingual tonsils
  9. linguales
  10. lingualis
  11. linguality

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