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What muscle will not paralyze when the facial nerve is severed?
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How is the nerve supply to platysma muscle?
Facial nerve
What muscle is paralyzed if sciatic nerve is severed?
gluteus maximus
Is the orbicularis oculi muscle innervated by the facial nerve?
Yes
Which is the muscle responsible for bell's sign?
It is caused by a paralyse of facial nerve.
Which facial nerve controls which side of the face?
nerves do not control face movement, muscle does
What term meaning to suture the ends of a severed nerve is?
Neurorrhaphy is surgical suture of the ends of a severed nerve.
What part of the nervous system is affected by the bell's palsy?
The Facial Nerve or Cranial Nerve VII is the nerve involved with Bell's Palsy.
What is the suturing of the ends of the severed nerve called?
Neurorrhaphy.
What two prominent muscles have been affected if your right accessory nerve was severed in an accident and there was muscle atrophy?
When a nerve is cut, the muscle that communicates with the brain along that nerve no longer functions. this results in atrophy, the muscle thinning. It may not be repairable since the nerves degenerate when they get cut. If the surgeon says a nerve graft is doable, then there can be good sucess with a repair.
Taste fibers to anterior two thirds of the tongue are carried by?
the Chorda Tympani nerve ( a branch of the facial nerve VII) which joins the lingual nerve medial to the lateral pterygoid muscle.
What muscle of Facial expression is not innervated by facial nerve?
The following facial muscles are innervated by cranial nerve VII (facial nerve):- orbicularis oris (closes lips)- caninus (snarling in a dog)- levator nasolabialis (lifts nose and upper lip)- levator labii superioris (lifts upper lip)- depressor labii inferioris (depresses lower lip)- caudal belly of the digastricus (opens jaw)
What is the nerve supply of the muscles of facial expression?
The facial muscles are innervated by facial nerve (cranial nerve VII). In contrast, the nearby masticatory muscles are innervated by the mandibular nerve, a branch of thetrigeminal nerve (V).
