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What cranial nerve is involved in toothache?
Trigeminal neuralgia is a rare disorder of the sensory fibers of the trigeminal nerve (fifth cranial nerve), which innervate the face and jaw. The neuralgia is accompanied by severe, stabbing pains in the jaw or face.
Temporary paralysis of the fifth cranial nerve?
Bells palsy
The cranial nerve responsible for chewing is?
Trigeminal V: a mixed nerve responsible for the chewing of food and sensations in the face, scalp, and teeth and the contraction of chewing muscles.
What is the medical term meaning sudden severe lightning-like pain due to inflammation of the fifth cranial nerve?
Trigeminal neuralgia is characterized by severe lightning-like pain due to an inflammation of the fifth cranial nerve.
Where is your trigeminal nerve?
One's trigeminal nerve is the fifth cranial nerve. It is the nerve responsible for sensation in the face and certain motor functions like biting and chewing.
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.
Which cranial nerve has a name that means the wanderer?
The Vagus Nerve (V)
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 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 is another name for the auditory nerve?
VESTIBULO-COCHLEAR nerve which is 8th cranial nerve.
What number cranial nerve is the vagus nerve?
The vagus nerve is the 10th cranial nerve, also known as cranial nerve X.
Which cranial nerve is the largest in diameter?
The X craneal nerve (vagus), it goes all the way to your diafragm
