Cranial Nerves Flashcards
CRANIAL NERVES
Sensory - smell
1 (olfactory)
CRANIAL NERVES
Sensory - sight
2 (optic)
CRANIAL NERVES
Motor - Eyes (multiple)
3, 4, 6
CRANIAL NERVES
Sensation of face, scalp, teeth, jaw, mouth (including SP), nasal cavity, ant 2/3 of tongue
5
CRANIAL NERVES
Motor - chewing muscles
5
CRANIAL NERVES
Sensory - tongue taste (multiple)
7, 9, 12 (for base of tongue and below)
CRANIAL NERVES
Motor - contraction of facial muscles
sensory - front 2/3 of tongue (taste)
7
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Sensory - hearing and equilibrium
8
CRANIAL NERVES
Motor - secretion of saliva (multiple)
7, 9
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Sensory - heart, lungs, larynx, pharynx, GI tract
10
CRANIAL NERVES
Motor - heart, lungs, larynx, pharynx, GI tract
10
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Motor - internal larynx, shoulder/neck muscles
11
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Motor - back 1/3 of tongue and strap muscles
12
Numbers of cranial nerves refer to
height of origination (superior to inferior)
Cranial nerves can be ___ or __ (relating to specific senses like sound or taste)
general; special
CRANIAL NERVES
when classified by three letters, the first refers to ___, the second refers to ___ and the third refers to ___
1) type of sense (general vs special like taste or hearing)
2) somatic (pain, temp, mechanical) vs visceral
3) efferent vs afferent (or both)
Cranial nerves found at midbrain
1-4
Cranial nerves found at pons-level
5-8
Cranial nerves found in medulla
9-12
name sup to inf
olfactory bulb; olfactory tract