What does What
Nerve Disorders
Which Nerve is Which
Tongue
Branches without Trees
100
This nerve is a special sensory nerve involved in vision.
What is the optic nerve?
100
This nerve is involved in the disorder known as Bell's palsy.
What is the facial nerve?
100
This is the largest cranial nerve.
What is the trigeminal nerve?
100
The nerve that supplies sensation to the posterior 1/3 of the tongue.
What is the glossopharyngeal nerve (IX)?
100
This branch of the maxillary division of the trigeminal nerve innervates the maxillary molars.
What is the posterior superior alveolar nerve?
200
This nerve is the special sensory nerve involved in smell.
What is the olfactory nerve?
200
This nerve disorder involves a short-term pain that with "trigger points".
What is Trigeminal neuralgia.
200
This is the name of the first cranial nerve.
What is the olfactory nerve?
200
This nerve provides motor innervation to the muscle of the tongue.
What is the hypoglossal nerve (XII)?
200
This branch of the maxillary division of the trigeminal nerve is only present in around 20% of the population.
What is the middle superior alveolar nerve?
300
This nerve innervates the trapezius and sternocleidomastoid muscles
What is the spinal accessory nerve?
300
This nerve is involved in trigeminal neuralgia.
What is the trigeminal nerve (V)?
300
These are the second, third, and fourth cranial nerves in order.
What is the optic nerve, oculomotor nerve, and trochlear nerve.
300
This nerve supplies sensation to the anterior 2/3 of the tongue.
What is the hypoglossal nerve (XII)?
300
The three branches of the maxillary division of the trigemnial nerve that innervates the palate.
What is the nasopalatine, greater, and lesser palatine branches?
400
This nerve is a sensory nerve that conducts two special senses: hearing (audition) and balance (vestibular).
What is the vestibulocochlear nerve?
400
This disorder is defined as loss of muscle control due to stroke, injury, or tumor.
What is facial paralysis?
400
This nerve travels through the Foramen Ovale and Foramen Rotundum.
What is the trigiminal nerve (V)?
400
This nerve supplies the taste sensation to the postior 1/3 of the tongue.
What is the glossopharyngeal nerve (IX)?
400
This branch of the maxillary division of the trigeminal nerve innervates the maxillary anterior teeth.
What is the anterior superior alveolar nerve?
500
This nerve innervates the muscles of the soft palate and pharynx as wall as many organs in the abdomen.
What is the Vagus Nerve (X)?
500
This nerve disorder involves unilateral facial paralysis of unknown cause.
What is Bell's palsy?
500
The function of this nerve is to contract the lateral rectus which results in abduction of the eye.
What is the abducens nerve?
500
The taste sensation of the tongue is provided by this specific branch of the facial nerve.
What is the chorda tympani nerve?
500
This division of the trigeminal nerve has both sensory and motor.
What is the mandibular branch of the trigeminal nerve (V3)
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