genioglossus muscle
Either of a pair of lingual muscles with origin in the mandible, with insertion to the lingual fascia below the mucous membrane and epiglottis, with nerve supply from the hypoglossal nerve, and whose action depresses and protrudes the tongue. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.
What the genioglossus muscle is
Either of a pair of lingual muscles with origin in the mandible, with insertion to the lingual fascia below the mucous membrane and epiglottis, with nerve supply from the hypoglossal nerve, and whose action depresses and protrudes the tongue. The atlas records it as a muscle at the organ scale in the human body.
Where the genioglossus muscle is
It sits within the muscular and digestive systems. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.
What the genioglossus muscle connects to
The atlas records 5 typed relationships for it, across 4 kinds of connection. a kind of anatomical structure and extrinsic muscle of tongue.
Supply and innervation
Innervation: hypoglossal nerve.
Also called
Also recorded as genioglossus, m. genioglossus and musculus genioglossus. Searching any of those names reaches this page.
Source
Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001571, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.
- A kind of: anatomical structure and extrinsic muscle of tongue.
- Innervated by: hypoglossal nerve.
- inserts into: dorsum of tongue.
- originates from: mandibular symphysis.
Questions
Where is the genioglossus muscle?
It sits within the muscular and digestive systems. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.
What does the genioglossus muscle connect to?
A kind of: anatomical structure and extrinsic muscle of tongue.
Is the genioglossus muscle the same in other species?
Leumas holds the same relationship vocabulary for every species it carries, so where another dataset records this structure you can put the two side by side on /compare.