CN 11

Question 0

What will branchial efferent fibers from the cranial root of cranial nerve XI innervate?

Answer 0

intrinsic skeletal muscles of the larynx

Question 1

The cranial root of the eleventh cranial nerve is annexed by which nerve?

Answer 1

the vagus nerve

Question 2

What location gives rise to the spinal root of the eleventh cranial nerve?

Answer 2

spinal nucleus formed from the ventral horn of spinal cord levels C1-C5

Question 3

What is unique about the eleventh cranial nerve?

Answer 3

it is the only cranial nerve to originate, in part, from the spinal cord and it is the only cranial nerve to be associated with the foramen magnum

Question 4

What will branchial efferent fibers in the spinal root of cranial nerve XI innervate?

Answer 4

sternocleidomastoideus and trapezius muscles