Cranial nerve

Introduction: Cranial nerve

Description of Cranial nerve

Cranial nerve: any of the 12 paired nerves that originate in the brain stem.
Source: WordNet 2.1

Cranial nerve: twelve pairs of nerves that carry general afferent, visceral afferent, special afferent, somatic efferent, and autonomic efferent fibers.
Source: CRISP

Cranial nerve: Related Topics

These medical condition or symptom topics may be relevant to medical information for Cranial nerve:

• Cranial
• Cranial pain (10 causes)
• Nerve
• Nerve symptoms (9132 causes)
• Nerve disease
• Nerve disorder
• Nerve problem (9132 causes)
• Nerve pain
• Nerves
• Brain

Terms associated with Cranial nerve:

More specific terms for Cranial nerve:

• acoustic nerve
• chorda tympani
• facial nerve
• hypoglossal nerve
• oculomotor nerve
• olfactory nerve
• optic nerve
• trigeminal nerve
• vagus nerve

Source - CRISP

• olfactory nerve
• nervii olfactorii
• first cranial nerve
• optic nerve
• nervus opticus
• second cranial nerve
• optic tract
• oculomotor
• oculomotor nerve
• nervus oculomotorius
• third cranial nerve
• trochlear
• trochlear nerve
• trochlearis
• fourth cranial nerve
• trigeminal
• trigeminal nerve
• trigeminus
• nervus trigeminus
• fifth cranial nerve
• abducent
• abducent nerve
• abducens
• abducens nerve
• nervus abducens
• sixth cranial nerve
• facial
• facial nerve
• nervus facialis
• seventh cranial nerve
• acoustic nerve
• auditory nerve
• vestibulocochlear nerve
• nervus vestibulocochlearis
• eighth cranial nerve
• glossopharyngeal nerve
• nervus glossopharyngeus
• ninth cranial nerve
• vagus
• vagus nerve
• nervus vagus
• pneumogastric
• pneumogastric nerve
• tenth cranial nerve
• wandering nerve
• accessory nerve
• spinal accessory
• nervus accessorius
• eleventh cranial nerve
• hypoglossal
• hypoglossal nerve
• nervus hypoglosus
• twelfth cranial nerve

Source - WordNet 2.1

Broader terms for Cranial nerve

• nerve
• peripheral nervous system

Source - CRISP

• nerve
• nervus

Source - WordNet 2.1

The term Cranial nerve can be used for:

• glossopharyngeal nerve

Source: CRISP

Hierarchical classifications of Cranial nerve

The following list attempts to classify Cranial nerve into categories where each line is subset of the next.

WordNet 2.1

• nerve,nervus
• fascicle,fasciculus,fiber bundle,fibre bundle
• nerve tissue,nervous tissue
• animal tissue
• tissue
• body part
• part,piece
• thing
• entity

Source: WordNet 2.1

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