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Q: Which cranial nerve innervates the ear?
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Which cranial nerve used in anatomy of ear?

The vestibulocochlear nerve innervates the ear.


What innervates velar muscles?

Cranial Nerve V


What is the specific nerve that innervates the cochlea?

Auditory Nerve from brain to ear.


The vagus nerve is a cranial nerve that carries?

Vagus nerve (CN 10) innervates your thoracoabdominal viscera by the parasympathetic nervous system.


What cranial nerve is used in listening to music?

The vestibulocochlear nerve or cranial nerve 8 (CN8) is largely involved with listening to music. However the trigeminal nerve (CN5), which innervates the tensor tympani, and the facial nerve (CN7), which innervates the stapedius muscle, may alter the perception of sound and theoretically affect the perception of music.


What cranial nerves are involved in the ossicles of the ear?

Cranial nerve VIII - vestibulocochlear


What is the twelfth cranial nerve?

The vagus nerve is the tenth cranial nerve. It is considered as one of the most important of all the twelve cranial nerves. These twelve cranial nerves, the vagus nerve included, emerge from or enter the skull (the cranium), as opposed to the spinal nerves which emerge from the vertebral column. The vagus nerve originates in the medulla oblongata, a part of the brain stem.


What part of the ear send messages to the brain?

The vestibulocochlear nerve, or 8th cranial nerve.


What part of the ear send the message to the brain?

The vestibulocochlear nerve, or 8th cranial nerve.


How small can a nerve be?

he trochlear nerve (the fourth cranial nerve, also called the fourth nerve, IV) is a motor nerve (a "somatic efferent" nerve) that innervates a single muscle: thesuperior oblique muscle of the eye.The trochlear nerve is unique among the cranial nerves in several respects. It is the smallest nerve in terms of the number of axons it contains.


What nerves carry signals to and from the eyes and ears?

The oculomotor nerve or the third cranial nerve, trochlear or forth cranial nerve and abducent or the sixth cranial nerve carry signal to your eye. The optic nerve carry the signal from the eye to the brain. Vestibulocochlear or the eighth cranial nerve carry the signal from your ear to the brain.


Cranial nerve involved in vision and visual fields?

The optic nerve (purely sensory; carry afferent impulses for vision) Oculomotor (innervates four of the extrinsic eye muscles) Trochlear (innervates an extrinsic eye muscle that hooks through a pulley-shaped ligament in the orbit) Abducens (innervates the muscle that turns abducts the eyeball)