Cranial Nerves

Question 1

Smell; origination: olfactory bulb

Answer 1

Cranial Nerve 1: Olfactory

Question 2

vision; origination: thalamus

Answer 2

Cranial Nerve 2: Optic

Question 3

eyeball movement; controls eyelids, pupil contrictor; origination: midbrain

Answer 3

Cranial Nerve 3: Oculomotor

Question 4

eyeball movement; origination: midbrain

Answer 4

Cranial Nerve 4: Trochlear

Question 5

chewing muscles, touch, pain, temperature, vibration for face, mouth, anterior 2.3rd’s of tongue; origination: pons

Answer 5

Cranial Nerve 5: Trigeminal

Question 6

eyeball movement; origination: pons

Answer 6

Cranial Nerve 6: Abducens

Question 7

face muscles, salivary glands, sense at auricle’s concha, taste in anterior 2/3rd’s of tongue; origination:pons

Answer 7

Cranial Nerve 7: Facial

Question 8

hearing and balance; origination: pons/medulla

Answer 8

Cranial Nerve 8: Auditory (vestubulocochlear)

Question 9

pharyngeal movement, parotid gland, middle ear, pharynx, posterior 1/3rd of the tongue, taste on posterior 1/3rd of the tongue, tactile sensation on external and middle ear; origination: Pons/medulla

Answer 9

Cranial Nerve 9: Glossopharyngeal

Question 10

pharyngeal and laryngeal muscles, viscera of the thoracic and abdominal cavities, tactile sensation to the external ear canal, pain sense from mucous membranes of pharynx, larynx, esophagus, trachea, and thoracic and abdominal viscera, taste from epiglottis/pharynx; origination: Medulla

Answer 10

Cranial Nerve 10: Vagus

Question 11

neck and shoulder muscles; origination: Medulla

Answer 11

Cranial Nerve 11: Spinal accessory

Question 12

tongue muscles; origination: medulla

Answer 12

Cranial Nerve 12: Hypoglossal