Cranial Nerve (Noun)
Meaning
Any of the 12 paired nerves that originate in the brain stem.
Classification
Nouns denoting body parts.
Examples
- The ophthalmic nerve is the first branch of the trigeminal cranial nerve, which is responsible for transmitting sensory information from the face to the brain.
- Damage to the cranial nerve that controls facial expressions can result in a condition known as facial paralysis or Bell's palsy.
- During the examination, the doctor tested the function of the patient's cranial nerves to determine the extent of the brain injury.
- The trigeminal cranial nerve is a complex nerve that has both sensory and motor functions, and is responsible for controlling many of the muscles of the face.
- The abducens cranial nerve is a small nerve that originates in the brain stem and controls the movement of the lateral rectus muscle in the eye.
Hypernyms
Hyponyms
- Nervus Vagus
- Abducens Nerve
- Nervus Glossopharyngeus
- Trochlearis
- Hypoglossal Nerve
- Twelfth Cranial Nerve
- Tenth Cranial Nerve
- Pneumogastric
- Optic Tract
- Eleventh Cranial Nerve
- Oculomotor Nerve
- Nervii Olfactorii
- Third Cranial Nerve
- Trochlear Nerve
- Auditory Nerve
- Vestibulocochlear Nerve
- Fourth Cranial Nerve
- Eighth Cranial Nerve
- First Cranial Nerve
- Sixth Cranial Nerve
- Ninth Cranial Nerve
- Spinal Accessory
- Nervus Facialis
- Nervus Accessorius
- Nervus Oculomotorius
- Nervus Abducens
- Pneumogastric Nerve
- Nervus Trigeminus
- Wandering Nerve
- Nervus Opticus
- Second Cranial Nerve
- Facial Nerve
- Vagus Nerve
- Abducent Nerve
- Nervus Vestibulocochlearis
- Nervus Hypoglosus
- Seventh Cranial Nerve
- Trigeminal Nerve
- Fifth Cranial Nerve
- Trigeminus
- Abducens