Lingual branches of glossopharyngeal nerve

The lingual branch of the glossopharyngeal nerve innervates the taste buds of the posterior 1/3 of the tongue and provides general sensation to this same area. The neuron cell bodies whose axons form the nerve, are found in the inferior ganglion of the glossopharyngeal nerve.

Lingual branches of glossopharyngeal nerve
Details
From	glossopharyngeal nerve
Identifiers
Latin	rami linguales nervi glossopharyngei
TA98	A14.2.01.148
TA2	6331
FMA	53490
Anatomical terms of neuroanatomy [edit on Wikidata]

References

This article incorporates text in the public domain from page 909 of the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)