Fast Facts - Cranial Nerves

Question 1

Somatic Sensory

Answer 1

Touch, pain, pressure, temperature, proprioception, afferent

Question 2

Visceral Sensory

Answer 2

Reflex or pain from viscera, glands, and blood vessels.

Question 3

Special Sensory

Answer 3

Hearing, balance, vision, smell, taste.

Question 4

Somatic Motor

Answer 4

innervation of SKELETAL muscles

Question 5

Visceral Motor

Answer 5

innervation of smooth muscle, cardiac muscle, glads, and production of fluid.

Question 6

Sensory

Answer 6

Afferent

Question 7

Motor

Answer 7

Efferent

Question 8

If you had damage to CN VI, what direction would you not be able to look?

Answer 8

Laterally

Question 9

If you had damage to CN IV, what direction would you not be able to look?

Answer 9

Laterally or Inferiorly.

Question 10

If you had damage to CN III, what direction would you not be able to look?

Answer 10

Medially or Superiorly, Superomedially, Superolaterally, Inferiomedially, Inferiorly.

Question 11

Visual defects may result from a large number of?

Answer 11

Neurological diesease.

Question 12

Bitemporal Hemianopsia

Answer 12

Loss of vision in the temporal fields of both eyes (tunnel vision).

Question 13

Homonymous Hemianopsia

Answer 13

Visual loss is in the same fields of each eye.