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| Domain | Definition |
Health | A sensory branch of the trigeminal (5th cranial) nerve. The ophthalmic nerve carries general afferents from the superficial division of the face including the eyeball, conjunctiva, upper eyelid, upper nose, nasal mucosa, and scalp. (references) |
Medicine | The first division of the trigeminal nerve which leaves the Gasserian ganglion, receives twigs from the III, IV, and VI cranial nerves, and divides into the nasociliary, the frontal and the lacrimal nerves. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Crosswords: OPHTHALMIC NERVE |
| Specialty definitions using "OPHTHALMIC NERVE": nasociliary, nasociliary nerve. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | People with "optical" shingles (where the virus has invaded an ophthalmic nerve) may suffer painful eye inflammations that leave them temporarily blind or impair their vision. (references) | |
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| Language | Translations for "OPHTHALMIC NERVE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Danish | nervus ophtalmicus. (various references) | ||||||||||
Dutch | nervus ophthalmicus. (various references) | ||||||||||
Finnish | silmähermo. (various references) | ||||||||||
French | nerf ophtalmique de Willis. (various references) | ||||||||||
German | Nervus ophthalmicus. (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | nervo oftalmico, nervo di Willis. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ophthalmicay ervenay nervio oftálmico. (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-h-h-i-l-m-n-o-p-r-t-v" | |
-3 letters: overemphatic, thermohaline. | |
-4 letters: cephalothin, metanephric, metanephroi, technophile, thermocline, thermophile. | |
-5 letters: amphoteric, cantilever, ceremonial, chloramine, chlorinate, clinometer, clomiphene, colemanite, complainer, completive, epicentral, helicopter, hemipteran, heptachlor, hermetical, heterophil, hierophant, importance, incomplete, lithophane, mercantile, metaphoric, morphactin, ophthalmic, overmantel, peritoneal, permeation, phonematic, planimeter, pratincole, preachment, preethical, prelection, revelation, telephonic, theophanic, thermopile, trampoline, treponemal. | |
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