pertaining to the tongue and throat

Pertaining to both the tongue and the pharynx; - applied especially to the ninth pair of cranial nerves, which are distributed to the pharynx and tongue. - n. One of the glossopharyngeal nerves.

Pharynx and gullet; the ninth cranial nerve.

But in these palaces of clashing splendour, the stunned brain fails to receive impressions from the glossopharyngeal nerve, and one eats unthinkingly like a dog. – The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne by William J. Locke