Radiology Lexicon

Last uploaded: November 19, 2024
Id http://www.radlex.org/RID/RID12119
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Preferred Name

facial nerve

Definitions
The 7th cranial nerve. The facial nerve has two parts, the larger motor root which may be called the facial nerve proper, and the smaller intermediate or sensory root. Together they provide efferent innervation to the muscles of facial expression and to the lacrimal and salivary glands, and convey afferent information for taste from the anterior two-thirds of the tongue and for touch from the external ear. [MeSH]
Synonyms
cranial nerve VII
branchiomeric cranial nerve
nerve VII
facial nerve [VII]
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