Cranial Nerves Flashcards
Olfactory
Carries impulses for the sense of smell toward the brain
Optic
Carries visual information from eye to brain
Oculomotor
Controls contraction of eye muscles
Troclear
Supplies one eyeball muscle
Trigemenal (three branches)
Ophthalmic
Maxillary
Mandibular
Trigemenal-ophthalmic branch
Eye (sensory)
Trigemenal-maxillary branch
Upper jaw
Trigemenal-mandibular branch
Mandible
Lower jaw
Abducena
Controlling impulses to an eyeball muscle
Facial
Controls muscles of facial expression. Carries sensation of taste, stimulates small salivary glands and lacrimal gland.
Vestibulochlear
Carry sensory impulses for hearing and equilibrium from the inner ear toward the brain.
Glossopharyngeal
Carry sensory impulses from tongue and pharynx. Controls swallowing muscles and stimulates the paranoid salivary gland.
Vagus
Supplies most of the organs in the thoracic and abdominales cavities, carries motor impulses to the larynx and pharynx.
Accessory
Controls muscles in the neck and larynx
Hypoglosaal
Controls muscles of the tongue