Week 2: Station 7 - Cranial Nerves Course

Question 1

What type of fibres are in cranial nerve I?

Answer 1

Special sensory

Question 2

What type of fibres are in cranial nerve II?

Answer 2

Special sensory

Question 3

What type of fibres are in cranial nerve III?

Answer 3

Motor

Parasympathetic

Question 4

What type of fibres are in cranial nerve IV?

Answer 4

Motor

Question 5

What type of fibres are in cranial nerve V1?

Answer 5

General sensory

Question 6

What type of fibres are in cranial nerve V2?

Answer 6

General sensory

Question 7

What type of fibres are in cranial nerve V3?

Answer 7

General sensory

Motor

Question 8

What type of fibres are in cranial nerve VI?

Answer 8

Motor

Question 9

What type of fibres are in cranial nerve VII?

Answer 9

Motor
Special sensory (anterior 2/3rds of the tongue)
Parasympathetic (glands)
General sensory (internal acoustic meatus)

Question 10

What type of fibres are in cranial nerve VIII?

Answer 10

Special sensory

Question 11

What type of fibres are in cranial nerve IX?

Answer 11

Special sensory (posterior 1/3rd tongue
Motor (pharyngeal muscles)
General sensory (oral cavity and middle ear)
Visceral motor (parotid myoepithelium)
Visceral sensory (carotid body and sinus)

Question 12

What type of fibres are in cranial nerve X?

Answer 12

everything

Question 13

What type of fibres are in cranial nerve XI?

Answer 13

Motor

Question 14

What type of fibres are in cranial nerve XII?

Answer 14

Motor

Question 15

Which cranial nerves have a parasympathetic component?

Answer 15

• III
• VII
• IX
• X

Question 16

Which cranial nerves arise from the midbrain?

Answer 16

III

IV

Question 17

Which cranial nerves arise from the pons?

Answer 17

V

Question 18

Which cranial nerves arise from the pontomedullary junction?

Answer 18

VI
VII
VIII

Question 19

Which cranial nerves arise from the medulla?

Answer 19

IX
X
XI
XII