Cranial Nerves Flashcards
What CN controls the muscles of mastication?
CN V3
What CN supplies taste to the anterior 2/3rds
CN VII
What CN supplies taste and general sensation to the posterior 1/3rd of the tongue
CN IX
What CN supplies general sensation to the anterior 2/3rds of the tonuge?
CN V3
What CN supplies facial expression?
CN VII
What CN supplies the submandibular and sublingual salivary glands?
CN VII
What CN supplies sensation to the superior half of your oral cavity?
CN V2
What CN supplies sensation to the inferior half of your oral cavity?
CN V3
What CN carries the motor part of the gag reflex?
CN IX and CN X
What CN carries the sensory part of the gag reflex?
CN IX
If an anaesthetic is sprayed in the oral cavity, what CNs will be numbed?
CN V2, CN V3, CN VII and CN IX
What CN controls the parotid salivary gland?
CN IX
What CN controls the muscles of the tongue (except for the palatoglossus)
CN XII
What CN innervates the pharynx?
CN X
What CN stimulate the longitudinal muscles of the pharynx?
CN IX and CN X
What CN closes the lips?
CN VII
Supplies facial expression?
CN VII
Supplies Sublingual salivary gland?
CN VII
Supplies submandibular gland?
CN VII
Supplies anterior nasal cavity?
V1
Supplies posterior nasal cavity?
V2
Middle ear, eustation tube and internal surface of tympanic membrane
CN IX
External (superior) surface of tympanic membrane and superior EAM
V3
Nasopharynx, oropharynx, tonsils
CN IX
External inferior surface of tympanic membrane
CN X
Helix and outer auricle of ear
C2, C3
Small dots of nerve in EAM
CN VII
Laryngopharynx and oesophagus
CN X
Associated with chorda tympani
CN VII which then joins V3
Innervation of stapedius
CN VII
Muscles of the soft palate
CN X
except tensor veli palatini
Tensor veli palatini
V3
Tongue pointing away unilaterally
damage to CN XII
points towards injury
Uvula damage points away unilaterally
damge to CN X and V3
points away from injury
Larynx and vocal cords
CN X
Superior oblique
CN IV
Lateral rectus
CN VI
All other eye muscles
CN III
