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Cranial Nerves
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Question | Answer |
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olfactory nerve | smell impulses from receptors in the nasal mucosa to brain. |
optic nerve | carries visual impulses from the eye to the brain. |
oculomotor nerve | concerned with concerned with the contraction most of the eye muscles. |
trochlear nerve | supplies one eyeball muscle. |
trigminal nerve | great sensory nerve of the nerve of the face and head. |
ophthalmic (trigminal branch) | |
maxillary (trigminal branch) | |
mandibular (trigminal branch) | |
nerves 1,2,13? | sensory fibers |
nerves 3,4,6,11,12? | motor fibers |
nerves 5,7,9,10? | both snesory and motor fibers |
abduceps nerve | another nerve sending controlling impulses to a eyeball muscle. |
facial nerve | muscles of the facial expression are all supplied by branches from facial nerve. |
vestibulocochlear nerve | carries sensory impulses for hearing and equilibrum from inner ear. |
glossopharyngeal nerve | general sensory fibers from posterior toungue and pharynx |
vagus nerve | supplies most of the organs in throatic and abdominal cavities. longest cranial nerve |
accessory nerve | 2 branches, one controls 2 muscles opf the neck, and the other supplies the muscles of the larynx |
hypoglossal nerve | carries impulses controlling toungue muscles |