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What is the largest of the cranial nerves and the most important sensory nerve of the face.?
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The only two cranial nerves that are completely sensory are numbers?
I and II
Why are cranial nerves known as cranial neveres not branial nerves?
Because somebody would ask why it wasn't cranial nerves instead of brainial nerves.
What nerves are involved in diplopia?
The nerves involved in diplopia include three cranial nerves: the oculomotor nerve (third cranial nerve), the abducens nerve (sixth cranial nerve), and the trochlear nerve (fourth cranial nerve).
Cranial nerves is classified as mixed nerve?
Spinal nerves are called mixed nerves because they all carry motor, sensory, and autonomic signals between the spinal cord and the body.
Name the five cranial sensory nerves each belonging to a different sense?
Olfactory nerve, optic nerve, facial nerve, glossopharyngeal . . . .I'm confused here
Are cranial nerves motor or sensory?
sensory nerve
How many pairs are of the cranial nerves?
There are 12 pairs of cranial nerves that are part of the PNS. These nerves are sensory, mixed and mostly motor.
How do somatic sensory nerve impulses get to the brainstem from the head itself?
Somatic sensory nerve impulses get to the brainstem from the head itself via the cranial nerves. Cranial nerves are also known as cerebral nerves.
Which cranial nerves are not sensory?
Cranial nerves III (oculomotor), IV (trochlear), VI (abducens), XI (accessory), and XII (hypoglossal) are motor nerves only.
What do cranial nerves VII IX and X contain?
Cranial nerves VII, IX and X are called mixed nerves because they contain both motor and sensory nerves.
The only two cranial nerves that are completely sensory are numbers?
I and II
Pure sensory cranial nerve?
Cranial nerves are primarily sensory. These nerves are directly between the brain and the brainstem and are responsible for smell, vision, eye movement, facial sensation, and the tongue movement.
What is the total number of cranial nerves?
There are 12 pairs of cranial nerves, which make a total of 24 cranial nerves. These nerves emerge directly from the brain and are responsible for various sensory, motor, and autonomic functions in the head and neck.
Which cranial nerves carries only sensory information?
The question is asking what three cranial nerves are purely sensory in their function. Some relevant terms here are olfactory, optic, and auditory or vestibucochlear or acoustic nerves. The only three cranial nerves that are pure sensory in function are cranial nerve #1 : the olfactory nerve (smell), cranial nerve #2 : the optic nerve (sight), and cranial nerve #8 : the auditory/vestibucochlear/acoustic nerve (hearing).
What do the mixed cranial nerves containing both motor and sensory fibers include?
Olfactory
What two cranial nerves carry sensory information about blood pressure to the brain?
glossopharyngeal, vagus
What twelve structures receive and send sensory and motor signals between the body and the brain?
What 12 structures receive and send sensory and motor signals between the body and brain
