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Cranial Nerves Flashcards

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Cranial Nerve Names

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1) Olfactory
2) Optic
3) Oculomotor
4) Trochlear
5) Trigeminal
6) Abduscen
7) Facial
8) Acoustic
9) Glossalpharyngeal
10) Vagus
11) Spinal Accessory
12) Hypoglossal

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Pneumonic: Cranial Nerves

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1) Oh
2) Oh
3) Oh
4) To
5) Touch
6) And
7) Feel
8) A
9) Girl’s
10) Vagina
11) Such
12) Happiness

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Olfactory Foramen & Components

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Cribriform plate (SVA)

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Optic Foramen & Components

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optic foramen (SSA)

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Oculomotor Foramen & Components

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superior orbital fissure (GSE,GVE)

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Trochlear Foramen & Components

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superior orbital fissure (GSE)

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Trigeminal Foramen & Components

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1) Opthalmic = superior orbital fissure (GSA)
2) Maxillary = foramen rotundum (GSA)
3) Mandibular = foramen ovale (SVE)

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Abducens Foramen & Components

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superior orbital fissure (GSE)

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Facial Foramen & Components

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internal auditory meatus (GVA, SVA, GSA, GVE, SVE)

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Vestibulocochlear Foramen & Components

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internal auditory meatus (SSA)

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Glossopharyngeal

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jugular foramen (GVA, SVA, GSA, GVE, SVE)

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Vagus

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jugular foramen (GVA, SVA, GSA, GVE, SVE)

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Spinal Accessory

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foramen mag & jugular foramen (GSA)

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Hypoglossal

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Hypoglossal canal

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GSE

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motor to voluntary muscle

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GSA

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sensation from skin, muscle, joints

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GVE

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motor to smooth muscle and glands

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GVA

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sensation from internal organs

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SVE

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voluntary motor to pharyngeal arch

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SVA

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taste and smell

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SSA

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vision, hearing, and balance

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Olfactory innervations

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olfactory nasal mucosa

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Optic innervations

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Oculomotor innervations

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1) sphincter pupillae & ciliary muscles
2) sup, med, inf recti and inf. obl. eyeball muscles
levator palpebrae superioris

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Trochlear innervations

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superior oblique

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Trigeminal innervations

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V1) upper skin
V2) midskin
V3) -lower skin
-motor to muscles of mastication, anterior belly of digastric, nerve to myohyoid, tensor tympani, tensor palatini

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Trigeminal/Opthalmic/branches

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NFL Nerves
N: Nasocilliary
F: Frontal
L: Lacrimal

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Abducens innervations

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lateral rectus

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Spinosum

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middle meningeal artery

30
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LR6(SO4)3

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Lateral Rectus - C.N. 6
Superior Oblique - C.N. 4
Every other eye muscle - C.N. 3

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IO UO, SO DO

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inferior oblique moves eye up and out, superior oblique moves eye down and out

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Facial innervations

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1) sensory of soft palate
2) anterior 2/3 of tongue
3) back of the ear
4) parasym the submandibular/lingual glands and lacrimal
5) motor to muscle of facial expression, platysma, satpedius, stylohyoid, posterior digastric

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Vestibulocochlear innervations

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1) organ of corti in cochlear duct

2) semicircular canals, utricle & seccule

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Glossopharyngeal innervations

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1) sense of post tongue, soft palate, pharynx, mucosa of tymp. cavity, post auditory tube, carotid body & sinus
2) posterior 1/3 of tongue & pharynx
3) back of the ear
4) parotid salivary gland
5) stylopharyngeous

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Route of Glossopharyngeal parasym.

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GLOAP:

Glossopharyngeal nerve to lesser petrosal nerve to otic ganglion to auriculotemporal nerve to parotid

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Vagus innervations

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1) visc. sensory to larynx, pharynx, esophagus, and trachea
2) taste buds in epiglottus
3) back of the ear
4) thoracic & abdominal viscera
5) muscles of pharynx & larynx, legator palatini & cricothroid

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Spinal Accessory innervations

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sternocleidomastoid & trapezius

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Hypoglossal

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tongue, styloglossal, hyloglossal, genioglossal

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