Meaning

2 senses
  1. The lower and larger of the two sensory ganglia of the glossopharyngeal nerve.

  2. The lower of the two ganglia of the vagus nerve that forms a swelling just beyond the exit of the nerve from the jugular foramen.

Forms

plural: inferior ganglia
Singularinferior ganglion
Pluralinferior ganglia

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Synonyms

4 synonyms
petrosal ganglionpetrous ganglioninferior vagal ganglionnodose ganglion

See also

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