"otic ganglion" meaning in English

See otic ganglion in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: otic ganglia [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|otic ganglia}} otic ganglion (plural otic ganglia)
  1. (neuroanatomy, zootomy) An small parasympathetic ganglion that is associated with the mandibular nerve, situated near the foramen ovale of the sphenoid bone, receives preganglionic fibers from the glossopharyngeal nerve by way of the lesser petrosal nerve, and sends postganglionic parasympathetic fibres to the parotid gland by way of the auriculotemporal nerve. Categories (topical): Neuroanatomy Categories (lifeform): Animal body parts Translations (parasympathetic ganglion): 耳神經節 (Chinese Mandarin), 耳神经节 (ěr shénjīngjié) (Chinese Mandarin)

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for otic ganglion meaning in English (2.6kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "otic ganglia",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "otic ganglia"
      },
      "expansion": "otic ganglion (plural otic ganglia)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "lifeform",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Animal body parts",
          "orig": "en:Animal body parts",
          "parents": [
            "Body parts",
            "Animals",
            "Body",
            "Anatomy",
            "Lifeforms",
            "Human",
            "Biology",
            "Medicine",
            "All topics",
            "Life",
            "Sciences",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nature"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Neuroanatomy",
          "orig": "en:Neuroanatomy",
          "parents": [
            "Anatomy",
            "Neurology",
            "Neuroscience",
            "Biology",
            "Medicine",
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An small parasympathetic ganglion that is associated with the mandibular nerve, situated near the foramen ovale of the sphenoid bone, receives preganglionic fibers from the glossopharyngeal nerve by way of the lesser petrosal nerve, and sends postganglionic parasympathetic fibres to the parotid gland by way of the auriculotemporal nerve."
      ],
      "id": "en-otic_ganglion-en-noun-hrXjlgIs",
      "links": [
        [
          "neuroanatomy",
          "neuroanatomy"
        ],
        [
          "zootomy",
          "zootomy"
        ],
        [
          "parasympathetic",
          "parasympathetic"
        ],
        [
          "ganglion",
          "ganglion"
        ],
        [
          "mandibular nerve",
          "mandibular nerve"
        ],
        [
          "foramen ovale",
          "foramen ovale"
        ],
        [
          "sphenoid bone",
          "sphenoid bone"
        ],
        [
          "preganglionic",
          "preganglionic"
        ],
        [
          "glossopharyngeal nerve",
          "glossopharyngeal nerve"
        ],
        [
          "lesser petrosal nerve",
          "lesser petrosal nerve"
        ],
        [
          "postganglionic",
          "postganglionic"
        ],
        [
          "parotid gland",
          "parotid gland"
        ],
        [
          "auriculotemporal nerve",
          "auriculotemporal nerve"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(neuroanatomy, zootomy) An small parasympathetic ganglion that is associated with the mandibular nerve, situated near the foramen ovale of the sphenoid bone, receives preganglionic fibers from the glossopharyngeal nerve by way of the lesser petrosal nerve, and sends postganglionic parasympathetic fibres to the parotid gland by way of the auriculotemporal nerve."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "anatomy",
        "biology",
        "medicine",
        "natural-sciences",
        "neuroanatomy",
        "neurology",
        "neuroscience",
        "sciences",
        "zoology",
        "zootomy"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "parasympathetic ganglion",
          "word": "耳神經節"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "ěr shénjīngjié",
          "sense": "parasympathetic ganglion",
          "word": "耳神经节"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "otic ganglion"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "otic ganglia",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "otic ganglia"
      },
      "expansion": "otic ganglion (plural otic ganglia)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "en:Animal body parts",
        "en:Neuroanatomy"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An small parasympathetic ganglion that is associated with the mandibular nerve, situated near the foramen ovale of the sphenoid bone, receives preganglionic fibers from the glossopharyngeal nerve by way of the lesser petrosal nerve, and sends postganglionic parasympathetic fibres to the parotid gland by way of the auriculotemporal nerve."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "neuroanatomy",
          "neuroanatomy"
        ],
        [
          "zootomy",
          "zootomy"
        ],
        [
          "parasympathetic",
          "parasympathetic"
        ],
        [
          "ganglion",
          "ganglion"
        ],
        [
          "mandibular nerve",
          "mandibular nerve"
        ],
        [
          "foramen ovale",
          "foramen ovale"
        ],
        [
          "sphenoid bone",
          "sphenoid bone"
        ],
        [
          "preganglionic",
          "preganglionic"
        ],
        [
          "glossopharyngeal nerve",
          "glossopharyngeal nerve"
        ],
        [
          "lesser petrosal nerve",
          "lesser petrosal nerve"
        ],
        [
          "postganglionic",
          "postganglionic"
        ],
        [
          "parotid gland",
          "parotid gland"
        ],
        [
          "auriculotemporal nerve",
          "auriculotemporal nerve"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(neuroanatomy, zootomy) An small parasympathetic ganglion that is associated with the mandibular nerve, situated near the foramen ovale of the sphenoid bone, receives preganglionic fibers from the glossopharyngeal nerve by way of the lesser petrosal nerve, and sends postganglionic parasympathetic fibres to the parotid gland by way of the auriculotemporal nerve."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "anatomy",
        "biology",
        "medicine",
        "natural-sciences",
        "neuroanatomy",
        "neurology",
        "neuroscience",
        "sciences",
        "zoology",
        "zootomy"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "parasympathetic ganglion",
      "word": "耳神經節"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "ěr shénjīngjié",
      "sense": "parasympathetic ganglion",
      "word": "耳神经节"
    }
  ],
  "word": "otic ganglion"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-10 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (a644e18 and edd475d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.