Cranial nerves Flashcards
Olfactory
Sense of smell
Optic
Vision
Oculomotor
Motor control of some eye muscles and eyelid
Trochlear
Motor control of some eye muscles
Trigeminal
Chewing muscles and some facial sensation
Abducens
Motor control of some eye muscles
Facial
Motor control of facial muscles, salivation. Taste and cutaneous sensations.
Vestibulocochlear
Equilibration, static sense and hearing
Glossopharyngeal
Salivation, sensations of skin, taste and viscera
Vagus
Motor control of the heart and viscera, sensation from the thorax, pharynx and abdominal viscera
Accessory
Motor impulses to the pharynx and shoulder
Hypoglossal
Motor control of tongue, some skeletal muscles, some viscera, sensation from skin and viscera