Cranial Nerves Flashcards
What is the name for cranial nerve VI?
Abducent nerve
What cranial nerve number is the oculomotor nerve?
CN III
What is the name of cranial nerve VIII?
Vestibulocochlear nerve
What is the name of cranial nerve XII?
Hypoglossal nerve
Which cranial nerve number is glossopharyngeal nerve?
CN IX
The ___ is CN X and ____ is CN XI.
Vagus
Accessory
What cranial nerve number is the facial nerve?
VII
True/False. The trochlear nerve is CN IV and the trigeminal nerve is CN V.
True
What nerve is CN I?
Olfactory nerve
Which nerve is CN II?
Optic nerve
Which nerve has both motor and sensory fibers and emerges through the stylomastoid foramen?
Facial nerve (CN VII)
Which nerve has a dorsal branch that supplies motor innervation to the trapezius muscle and cleidocephalicus muscle?
Accessory nerve (CN XI)
Where is the olfactory nerve found within the ethmoid bone?
Ethmoidal conchae and the cribiform plate
Which nerves innervate the extrinsic muscles of the eye?
Oculomotor nerve
Trochlear nerve
Abducent nerve
What nerves make up BLIMA?
Buccal Lingual Inferior alveolar Mylohyoid Auriculotemporal
Which nerve is the sensory component to the medial canthus?
Opthalmic nerve/ branch
which nerve is the sensory component to the lateral canthus?
Maxillary nerve/branch
Which nerves come out of the tympano-occipital fissure?
Glossopharyngeal (IX)
Vagus (X)
Accessory (XI)
Which nerve can you find associated with the internal acoustic meatus on a sagitally sectioned skull?
Vestibulocochlear (VIII)
The facial nerve trunk lies deep to the _____ and emerges from the ____ caudal to the base of the ear.
Parotid salivary gland; styomastoid foramen
Various branches of the facial nerve supply motor innervation to ___, ___, and the caudal part of the ____ muscles
Stylohyoideus m., caudal auricular muscles, and digastricus muscle
What muscle does the mandibular branch of the trigeminal nerve supply motor innervation?
Cranial part of the digastricus muscle
Are the auriculopalpebral and buccal branches of the facial nerve motor or sensory?
Motor
What do the branches of the auriculotemporal nerve unit with?
- Dorsal buccal branch of the facial nerve
- Auriculopalpebral branch of the facial nerve
True/False. The mental nerve is a branch off the maxillary nerve.
False. It comes from the mandibular branch of the trigeminal nerve
Which nerve is mostly sensory but provides motor fibers to the mylohyoid muscle and muscles of mastication?
CN V - Trigeminal nerve