Cranial Nerves

Question 1

Olfactory

Answer 1

Carries impulses for the sense of smell toward the brain

Question 2

Optic

Answer 2

Carries visual information from eye to brain

Question 3

Oculomotor

Answer 3

Controls contraction of eye muscles

Question 4

Troclear

Answer 4

Supplies one eyeball muscle

Question 5

Trigemenal (three branches)

Answer 5

Ophthalmic
Maxillary
Mandibular

Question 6

Trigemenal-ophthalmic branch

Answer 6

Eye (sensory)

Question 7

Trigemenal-maxillary branch

Answer 7

Upper jaw

Question 8

Trigemenal-mandibular branch

Answer 8

Mandible

Lower jaw

Question 9

Abducena

Answer 9

Controlling impulses to an eyeball muscle

Question 10

Facial

Answer 10

Controls muscles of facial expression. Carries sensation of taste, stimulates small salivary glands and lacrimal gland.

Question 11

Vestibulochlear

Answer 11

Carry sensory impulses for hearing and equilibrium from the inner ear toward the brain.

Question 12

Glossopharyngeal

Answer 12

Carry sensory impulses from tongue and pharynx. Controls swallowing muscles and stimulates the paranoid salivary gland.

Question 13

Vagus

Answer 13

Supplies most of the organs in the thoracic and abdominales cavities, carries motor impulses to the larynx and pharynx.

Question 14

Accessory

Answer 14

Controls muscles in the neck and larynx

Question 15

Hypoglosaal

Answer 15

Controls muscles of the tongue