Definitions for facial nerve
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
fa′cial nerve`(n.)
either one of the seventh pair of cranial nerves, in mammals supplying facial muscles, the taste buds at the front of the tongue, the tear glands, and the salivary glands.
Category: Anatomy
Origin of facial nerve:
1810–20
Princeton's WordNet
facial, facial nerve, nervus facialis, seventh cranial nerve(noun)
cranial nerve that supplies facial muscles
Wiktionary
facial nerve(Noun)
The seventh (VII) of twelve paired cranial nerves.
U.S. National Library of Medicine
Facial Nerve
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.
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