Pertaining to both the tongue and the pharynx; -- applied especially to the ninth pair of cranial nerves, which are distributed to the pharynx and tongue.
Of or pertaining to the movement of the eye; -- applied especially to the common motor nerves (or third pair of cranial nerves) which supply many of the muscles of the orbit.
Proceeding from the brain are twelve pairs of cranial nerves.
The influence thus especially connected with the processes of organic life is generally different from, or even opposed to, that conveyed to the same organs by fibers running in the spinal or cranial nerves.
The nerves which supply the nasal mucous membrane are derived from the branches of the fifth and the first pair of cranial nerves,--the olfactory.
The tongue is supplied with sensory fibers by branches from the fifth and eighth pairs of cranial nerves.
Defn: Pertaining to both the tongue and the pharynx; -- applied especially to the ninth pair of cranial nerves, which are distributed to the pharynx and tongue.
Of or pertaining to the eye; ocular; as, the optic nerves (the first pair of cranial nerves) which are distributed to the retina.
The painful sensations experienced in the face, and in the teeth or jaws, (tic douloureux and toothache,) are induced by irritation and disease of a portion of the filaments of the fifth pair of cranial nerves.
For convenience of description, the nervous system may be divided into the Brain, Cranial Nerves, Spinal Cord, Spinal Nerves, and the Sympathetic Nerve.
These are the first, second, eighth, and it may be one of the branches of the fifth pair of cranial nerves.
These embrace the fifth pair of cranial nerves, and the thirty-one pairs of spinal nerves.
During the progress of the symptoms there is frequently evidence of direct pressure upon definite cortical centres or cranial nerves, giving rise to focal symptoms.
The optic nerve, also called the "second pair" of cranial nerves, is the means of communication between the eye and the brain.
From the base of the brain, and from the sides of the medulla originate, also, the cranial nerves, of which there are twelve pairs.
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