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What branch of cranial nerves is responsible for monitoring changes in the equilibrium?
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the vestibular branch
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What is the cranial cranial nerve responsible for?
equilibrium, taste, tears, and tongue movement
What Cranial nerve is equilibrium and hearing?
The cranial nerve responsible for hearing and equilibrium is vestibulocochlear nerve (CN VIII). It originates from between the pons and medulla.
Which cranial nerve is responsible for equilibrium?
The 8th. Hey - I remembered it, the vestibulocochlear nerve.
Which cranial nerves is responsible for olfaction?
The olfactory nerve which is also cranial nerve number 1 is responsible for the sense of olfaction.
How does equilibrium information reach the brain?
The information of the equilibrium reach your brain via vestibulocochlear nerve. It is the eighth cranial nerve.
Which cranial nerve is involved with listening to music and sea sickness?
Vestibulocochlear nerve (CN VIII). More specifically vestibular nerve of CN VIII is responsible for equilibrium and balance.
What cranial nerve is responsible for transmitting visual information?
Cranial Nerve 2 - Optic Nerve
Which cranial nerve transmits hearing and equilibrium information to the brain?
vestibulocochlear nerve (VIII)
What structures are common to the hearing and equilibrium functions of the Inner Ear?
The vestibulocochlear nerve also known as the eighth cranial nerve transmits sound and equilibrium and is common to the hearing and equilibrium functions of the inner ear.
Which one is cranial nerves 2?
Cranial nerve number 2 is the optic nerve, responsible for most of the sensation of sight.
What is the eighth cranial nerve?
Cranial nerve 7 is also referred to as the facial nerve. It has both sensory and motor components. Its sensory portion is responsible for taste on the anterior two thirds of the tongue as well as sensation for a small patch of skin by the ear. Its motor component is responsible for innervating the muscles of facial expression.
Which cranial nerve will help you blink your eyes?
The third cranial nerve, the oculomotor is responsible for blinking and most other eyelid movement.
