Cranial nerves

Question 1

CN responsible for downward and inward eye movement

Answer 1

IV

Question 2

CN responsible for swallowing

Answer 2

X

Question 3

CN responsible for facial nerve that is both motor and sensory responsible for facial movement, taste, saliva and tear secretion

ability to close eyes tightly, wrinkle the forehead, and smile.

Answer 3

VII

Question 4

CN responsible for extraocular eye movements and opening of the eyelids

Answer 4

III

Question 5

CN responsible for absence of blink

Answer 5

V…trochlear

or

VII…facial

Question 6

Palpation of the temporal and masseter muscles, when the patient clenches his teeth and moves his jaw from side to side. This maneuver assesses

Answer 6

Trigeminal Nerve (V)

Question 7

Failure of the soft palate to rise when the patient is instructed to say “ah” or yawn could be suggestive of a bilateral lesion in?

Answer 7

Vegas Nerve (X)

Question 8

patient to stick his tongue out and to move it from side to side in his mouth

Answer 8

XII