Cranial Nerves

Question 1

Component Mnemonic

Answer 1

Some say marry money but my brother says big brains matter most.
(Sensory, motor, or both )

Question 2

Somatic

Answer 2

Comes from the skin and deep tissues, muscles, joints

Question 3

Visceral

Answer 3

Comes from the internal organs, smooth muscles, glands

Question 4

Efferent

Answer 4

Motor

Question 5

Afferent

Answer 5

Sense

Question 6

What is GVE always

Answer 6

Parasympathetic

Question 7

Sympathetic

Answer 7

Fight or flight

Question 8

Parasympathetic

Answer 8

Rest and digest

Question 9

SVA

Answer 9

Taste and smell

Question 10

Which cranial nerves gain access to orbit through superior orbital fissure?

Answer 10

3, 4, VI, 6

Question 11

Which nerves have ganglia near target organs?

Answer 11

Parasympathetic, there will be a fiber before and after synapse

Question 12

What nerves contain parasympathetic function?

Answer 12

3
7
9
10

Question 13

Unique facts about trochlear nerve

Answer 13

Only nerve to come from dorsal surface of brain

Most exposed on surface of brain making subject to trauma or meningitis

Question 14

Branches of trigeminal nerve

Answer 14

Ophthalmic
Maxillary
Mandibular

Question 15

What is the big sensory nerve of the head?

Answer 15

CN5

Question 16

What artery travels with the auricular temporal nerve?

Answer 16

Superficial temporal

Question 17

4 Foramen in crescent shape on either side of celitosica on top of skull and contents?

Answer 17

“Standing room only stupid”
Superior orbital fissure—3, 4, V1, 6
Rotundum--------V2
Ovale-------V3
Spinosum -middle menangeal artery

Question 18

LR6(SO4)3

Answer 18

Innervation of extra occular muscles
Lateral rectus - 6
Superior rectus - 4
Everything else - 3

Question 19

Nerve used to see?

Answer 19

CN2

Question 20

Nerve used to Focus?

Answer 20

CN III (Ciliary Muscle)

Question 21

Nerve used when looking at Bright Light?

Answer 21

CN III (Sphinter Pupillae)

Question 22

Nerve used to Open your eyes?

Answer 22

CN III (Levator Palpebrae)

Question 23

Nerve used when you Force your eyes Closed?

Answer 23

CN VII

Question 24

Which nerves opens pupil wide?

Answer 24

Sympathetics

Question 25

Which nerve/muscle opens lid extra wide?

Answer 25

Sympathetics (tarsal muscle of Mueller)

Question 26

Eye oblique mnemonic

Answer 26

I O UO, SO DO
Inferior oblique: up and out
Superior oblique: down and out

Question 27

Cranial Nerves Mnemonic

Answer 27

I. Olfactory (oh)
II. Optic (oh)
III. Occulomotor (oh)
IV. Trochlear (to)
V. Trigeminal (touch)
VI. Abducens (and)
VII. Facial (feel)
VIII. Acoustic (a)
IX. Glossopharyngeal (girls)
X. Vagus (vagina)
XI. Spinal Accessory (such)
XII. Hypoglossal (heaven)

Question 28

What nerve travels with the Superficial temporal artery?

Answer 28

Auricular temporal nerve

Question 29

Where is the olfactory nerve found?

Answer 29

Bottom of the brain

Question 30

What artery travels with optic nerve?

Answer 30

Ophthalmic artery

Both in optic foramen