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The seventh cranial nerve or facial nerve controls voluntary facial movements (motor function) so you can check it through wrinkling the eyebrows or frowning, smiling or showing your teeth, puffing your cheeks, and moving your lips. Check for any abnormalities or asymmetry. Facial nerve has also sensory function as it receives taste sensation to anterior 2/3 of the tongue. This can be tested by swab with different taste and the patient will determine what it is.
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Is a condition that involves the seventh cranial nerve?
Bell's Palsy
What reflex is centered in the brain and involves cranial nerves?
The reflex that is centered in the brain and involves cranial nerves is the cranial reflex. An example of this is the pupillary light reflex, where light exposure causes the pupils to constrict. This reflex involves the optic nerve (Cranial Nerve II) for sensing light and the oculomotor nerve (Cranial Nerve III) for pupil constriction. The processing occurs in the brainstem, illustrating the integration of sensory and motor functions.
What is the name and number of the cranial nerve that involves shrugging the shoulders?
The Cranial Nerves that helps in shrugging of shoulder is the XI Cranial Nerve Nervus Accessorius or Accessory Nerve that innervated the Trapezius Muscle
What cranial nerve is responsible for muscles of facial expression?
Facial nerve, the seventh cranial nerve. It leaves the brain along with eighths cranial nerve through internal acoustic meatus and comes out through stylomastoid foramen to supply the muscles of facial expression.
What symptoms may occur when an acoustic neuroma presses on the surrounding cranial nerves?
Compression of the fifth cranial nerve can result in facial pain and or numbness. Compression of the seventh cranial nerve can cause spasms, weakness or paralysis of the facial muscles
What cranial nerve is used when smelling a flower?
The Olfactory nerve. CN1 Cranial Nerve I, or the first cranial nerve called the Olfactory nerve.
What number cranial nerve is the vagus nerve?
The vagus nerve is the 10th cranial nerve, also known as cranial nerve X.
Opening the eyes involves the what nerve?
Opening the eyes involves the cranial nerve called the oculomotor nerve (CN III). This nerve innervates the muscles responsible for raising the upper eyelid and controlling the pupil size.
Smell impulses are carried by the cranial nerve called the?
Smell impulses are carried by the cranial nerve called the olfactory nerve (cranial nerve I). It is responsible for transmitting information about odors from the nose to the brain.
Which one of the following cranial nerves is NOT involved in either taste?
The optic nerve (cranial nerve II) is not involved in taste, as its primary function is vision. Taste is primarily mediated by the facial nerve (cranial nerve VII), glossopharyngeal nerve (cranial nerve IX), and vagus nerve (cranial nerve X).
What is the function of cranial nerves?
cranial nerve I: olfactory:smell cranial nerve II:optic:vision cranial nerve III: oculomotor: 4 of 6 eye muscles cranial nerve IV: trochlear: cranial nerve V: Trigeminal cranial nerve VI: Abducens cranial nerve VII: Facial cranial nerve VIII: Vestibulochlear: hearing cranial nerve IX: Grosspharnxgeal: saliva formation cranial nerve X: Vegus cranial nerve XI: Acessory Spinal: trapizious movement cranial nerve XII: Hypoglosseal: toungue movement
What is the role of the facial cranial nerve in controlling facial expressions and movements?
The facial cranial nerve, also known as the seventh cranial nerve or the facial nerve, plays a crucial role in controlling facial expressions and movements. It innervates the muscles of the face, allowing us to smile, frown, blink, and make other facial expressions. Damage to this nerve can lead to facial paralysis or weakness on one side of the face.
