Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Hypoglossal

Hypoglossal , adjective

[Prefix hypo- + Greek {not transcribed} the tongue.]

(Anatomy) Under the tongue; -- applied esp., in the higher vertebrates, to the twelfth or last pair of cranial nerves, which are distributed to the base of the tongue.
(Anatomy) One of the hypoglossal nerves.