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ambiguous nucleus (medicine)


ambiguous nucleus -->
nucleus ambiguus


A very slender, longitudinal column of motor neurons in the ventrolateral medulla oblongata; its efferent fibres leave with the vagus and glossopharyngeal nerve and innervate the striated muscle fibres of the pharynx (including the musculus levator veli palatini) and the vocal cord muscles of the larynx.

Synonym: ambiguous nucleus.