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Cranial Nerves
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Olfactory | Number: 1 Type: Sensory Function: Sense of Smell |
| Optic | Number: 2 Type: Sensory Function: Vision |
| Oculomotor | Number: 3 Type: Motor Function: Raise eyelids, move eyes, regulate the size of pupils, focus of lenses. |
| Trochlear | Number: 4 Type: Motor Function: Eye movements, proprioception |
| Trigeminal | Number: 5 Type: Mixed Function: Sensations of the head and face, chewing movements, and muscle sense. |
| Abducens | Number: 6 Type: Motor Function: Produce movements of the eyes |
| Facial | Number: 7 Type: Mixed Function: Facial expressions, secretion of saliva, taste. |
| Vestibulocochlear | Number: 8 Type: Sensory Function: Balance or equilibrium sense. Hearing. |
| Glossopharyngeal | Number: 9 Type: Mixed Function: Taste and other sensations of tongue, swallowing, secretion of saliva, aid in reflex control of blood pressure and respiration. |
| Vagus | Number: 10 Type: Mixed Function: Transmit impulses to muscles associated with speech, swallowing, the heart, smooth muscles of visceral organs in the thorax, and abdomen. |
| Accessory | Number:11 Type: Motor Function: Turning movements of the head, movements of the shoulder and viscera, voice production. |
| Hypoglossal | Number:12 Type: Motor Function: Tongue movements |