Functional Classification of Cranial Nerve Fibers

Question 1

What does GSE stand for?

Answer 1

General Somatic Efferents

Question 2

GSE fibers provide motor to what?

Answer 2

Skeletal muscles like muscles of eyeballs

Question 3

What does GVE stand for?

Answer 3

General Visceral Efferents

Question 4

GVE provide parasympathetic motor to what?

Answer 4

Heart

Smooth muscle of eye and gland

Question 5

What does SVE stand for?

Answer 5

Special visceral efferents

Question 6

SVE provide motor to what?

Answer 6

Branchomeric muscles which are derived from embryonic pharyngeal (branchial) arches

Question 7

What are the branchial arches?

Answer 7

Arch 1: CN V muscles of mastication
Arch 2: CN VII muscles of facial expression
Arch 3: CN IX stylopharyngeus
Arch 4: CN X muscles of pharynx and larynx

Question 8

What does GSA stand for?

Answer 8

General Somatic Afferents

Question 9

GSA fibers are involved in ordinary sensation such as?

Answer 9

Pain
Temperature
Touch
Vibration
Proprioception

Question 10

GVA stands for what?

Answer 10

General Visceral Afferents

Question 11

GSA fibers include sensory from what?

Answer 11

Gut

Gut homologues or blood vessels: Distension and stretch

Question 12

SSA stands for what?

Answer 12

Special Somatic Afferents

Question 13

SSA are involved in the special senses such as?

Answer 13

Vision
Hearing
Balance

Question 14

SVA stands for what?

Answer 14

Special visceral afferents

Question 15

SVA fibers are involved in special senses to do with the gut such as?

Answer 15

Taste

Smell