tongue muscle http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c6/Gray1019.png tongue skeletal muscle tissue MA:0001596 UMLS:C1710437 BTO:0001386 uberon skeletal muscle tissue of tongue NCIT:C52707 muscle of tongue tongue skeletal muscle EMAPA:17883 EHDAA2:0002065 musculi linguae UMLS:C0448325 VHOG:0001390 The muscular portion of the tongue. SCTID:244781004 FMA:46689 NCIT:C49301 UBERON:0000378 muscle organ of tongue The lamprey head contains another group of muscles, the epi- and hypo-branchial muscles (EBM and HBM), derivatives of anterior trunk myotomes. (...) The origin and the migration pattern of HBM precursors are very similar to that of the gnathostome MPP, especially to that of the tongue muscle precursors. Other evidence of homology of lamprey HBM to the gnathostome tongue muscle is that HBM is innervated by the nerve termed the hypoglossal nerve based on its morphological position associated with the head/trunk interface. (...) The HBM-specific expression of the LampPax3/7 gene is consistent with the homology of this muscle to the gnathostome tongue muscle, or to the hypobranchial series as a whole (including the infrahyoid and possibly the diaphragm in mammals).[well established][VHOG] Wikipedia:Muscles_of_tongue EHDAA:9146 skeletal muscle organ