cranial nerve

noun

, Anatomy.

any of the nerves arising from the brainstem and exiting to the periphery of the head through skull openings, including 10 pairs in fish and amphibians and 12 pairs in reptiles, birds, and mammals: in humans, these are the abducens nerve, accessory nerve, auditory nerve, facial nerve, glossopharyngeal nerve, hypoglossal nerve, oculomotor nerve, olfactory nerve, optic nerve, trigeminal nerve, trochlear nerve, and vagus nerve.

cranial nerve

any of the 12 paired nerves that have their origin in the brain and reach the periphery through natural openings in the skull

cranial nerve

Any of the 12 pairs of nerves in humans and other mammals that connect the muscles and sensory organs of the head and upper chest directly to the brain through openings in the skull. The cranial nerves include the optic nerve and the auditory nerve.

First recorded in 1830–40

Hicks was part of a team that analyzed some of these miRNAs that are released into saliva by cranial nerves in the head.

I have given a figure of the development of a posterior root of a cranial nerve in fig.

This scheme may be advantageously compared with that of a typical cranial nerve according to Gegenbaur.

The cranial nerve-trunks also are liable to be pressed upon.

Each cranial nerve is typically placed immediately behind the head-cavity of its somite.

Another symptom denoting paresis of the cranial nerve-centres is a marked change in the expression of the face.

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