Cranial Nerves**

Question 1

What is the mnemonic for the 12 cranial nerves?

Answer 1

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Question 2

Transmit impulses associated with smell

Answer 2

Olfactory

Question 3

Transmits impulses associated with vision

Answer 3

Optic

Question 4

Transmit impulses to muscles that raise eyelids, move eyes, adjust the amount of light entering eyes, focus lenses

Answer 4

Oculomotor

Question 5

Transmits impulses that move the eyes

Answer 5

Trochlear

Question 6

Transmit impulses from the surface of your face (scalp, eyelids, glands)

Answer 6

Trigeminal

Question 7

Transmits impulses from surface of things associated with conditions of muslces

Answer 7

Abducens

Question 8

Transmit impulses associated with taste receptors and tongue, facial expression, and salivary glands

Answer 8

Facial

Question 9

Transmit impulses associated with hearing and equlibrium

Answer 9

Vestibulocochlear

Question 10

Transmit impulses from pharynx, tonsils, posterior tongue, carotid arteries, salivary glands

Answer 10

Glossopharyngeal

Question 11

Somatic transmits to muscles associated with speech and swallowing. Autonomic transmits to heart, smooth muscles, glands.

Answer 11

Vagus

Question 12

Transmit impulses to muscles of the soft plate, pharynx, larynx, neck and back

Answer 12

Accessory

Question 13

Transmit impulses to muscles that move the tongue

Answer 13

Hypoglossal