Cranial nerves

Question 1

3 functions of a cranial nerve (may have at least one or more of these functions)

Answer 1

Sensory
Somatic motor
Parasympathetic

Question 2

Sensory functions

Answer 2

Special senses // vision, touch, pain

Question 3

Somatic motor functions

Answer 3

control of skeletal muscles through motor neurons, proprioceptive sensory fibers

Question 4

Proprioception

Answer 4

The awareness of the position fo your various body parts

Question 5

Parasympathetic functions

Answer 5

Regulations of glands, smooth muscles, and cardiac muscle

Question 6

Oculomotor nerve (III)

Answer 6

four/6 musscles that move eyebal and eylid.

Question 7

Trochlear nerve

Answer 7

somatic motor nerve that innervates 1/6 eye muscles

Question 8

Trigeminal nerve

Answer 8

motor innervation to muscles of mastication, middel ear, palatine, and throat

Allows you to chew without biting your tongue or cheek

Involved in sensory cutaneous innervation fo the head

Pain in headaches

Question 9

Abducens nerve (VI)

Answer 9

somatic motor nerve,

1/6 eyeball nerves

Question 10

Facial nerve (VII)

Answer 10

somoatic, sensory, and parasympathetic
Controls muscles of facial expression
Sense of taste

Question 11

Vestibulocochlear nerve (VIII)

Answer 11

sesnory only

hearing and balance

Question 12

Glossopharyngeal nerve (IX)

Answer 12

somatic, sensory, and parasympathetic

Taste middle ear pharynx

Question 13

Vagus nerve (X)

Answer 13

somatic, motor, sensory, and parasympathetic

Muscles of soft palate, pharynx, and larynx

Question 14

Accessory nerve (XI)

Answer 14

somatic motor

Sternocleidomastorid adn trapezius muscles

Question 15

Hypoglossal nerve (XII)

Answer 15

somatic motor nerve
tongue muscles
thyrohyoid and genoiohyoid muscles