Cranial Nerve Overview

Question 1

Olfactory nerve has what function?

Answer 1

sensory

Question 2

Which olfactory nerves are at the cribriform plate? (as written in notes)

Answer 2

Bipolar nerves

Question 3

Synapse of Olfactory nerve occurs at what structure? (as written in notes)

Answer 3

Olfactory Bulb

Question 4

Which fibers synapse transversely through the cribriform plate to the olfactory bulb?

Answer 4

Olfactory Mucosa

Question 5

In the optic nerve fibers from the retina converge on which structure?

Answer 5

optic disc

Question 6

Optic tract carries fibers from the optic chiasma towards what structure?

Answer 6

lateral geniculate bodies

Question 7

The oculomotor nerve has which types of nerve functions?

Answer 7

somatic and parasympathetic

Question 8

The oculomotor nerve supplies which somatic muscles?

Answer 8

Medial Rectus
Inferior Oblique
Levator Palpebrae
Superior Rectus 
Inferior Rectus

Question 9

The oculomotor nerve supplies which visceral muscles?

Answer 9

Ciliaris

Constrictor pupillae

Question 10

The trochlear nerve supplies which muscle?

Answer 10

Superior Oblique

Question 11

The Superior Oblique action is to the move the eye in what direction(s)?

Answer 11

Down & Out