Nerves Flashcards
CN I ?
Olfactory
CN II
Optic
CNIII
Oculomotor
CN IV
Trochlear
CN V
Trigeminal
CN VI
Abducens
CN VII
Fascial
CN VIII
Vestibulocochlear
CN IX
Glossopharyngeal
CN X
Vagus
CN XI
Accessory
CN XII
Hypoglossal
What is CN XII responsible for?
Hypoglossal –> Toungue muscles (Intrinsic and extrinsic)
What is CN XI responsible for?
Accessory–> Trapezius and SCM
What is CN X responsible for?
Vagus –> Innervates smooth muscles and glands of the heart, lungs larynx, trachea, and most abdominal organs
Visceral sensation (excluding pain) from heart, lungs, abdominal organs, bronchi, trachea, larynx, pharynx, gastrointestinal tract to level of descending colon.
General sensation from the external acoustic meatus, eardrum, and pharynx is connected to What CN ??
X –> Vagus
What is CN IX responsible for?
Provides motor, parasympathetic and sensory information to your mouth and throat
What is CN VIII responsible for?
Vestibulocochlear–> Hearing (cochlear branch); linear and angular acceleration, or head position in space/equilibrium (vestibular branch)
What is CN VII responsible for?
Fascial –> Taste from anterior two-thirds of tongue, Fascial expressions (Stylohyoid, Digastric,Stepedius)
What is CN VI responsible for?
Abducens –> Innervate the lateral rectus muscle of eye (abducts the eye)
What is CN V responsible for?
Trigeminal–> Conducts touch, temperature and pain sensation from the
- face, nose, mouth, nasal and oral mucosa, anterior two-thirds of tongue
- Innervate the muscles of mastication, mylohyoid, digastric (anterior belly), tensor veli palatini, and tensor tympani
What is CN IV responsible for?
Innervate the superior oblique eye muscle (moves the eye inferiorly and laterally
What is CN III responsible for?
constricts the pupil), and the ciliary muscle (accomodate the eye for near vision)
Innervates the inferior oblique muscle and medial, inferior, and superior rectus muscles of the eye
CN II is responsible for?
Vision