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Definition: Cranial Nerve |
Cranial NerveNoun1. Any of the 12 paired nerves that originate in the brain stem. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Crosswords: Cranial Nerve |
| English words defined with "cranial nerve": corticospinal tract ♦ facial, facial nerve ♦ nervus facialis ♦ pyramidal motor system, pyramidal tract ♦ seventh cranial nerve. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "cranial nerve": Abducens Nerve Injury, abducens paralysis 2.sixth nerve paralysis ♦ Cochlear Nerve ♦ Laryngeal Nerves ♦ Miller-Fisher Syndrome ♦ Pituitary Apoplexy ♦ Raymond syndrome ♦ trifacial nerve ♦ Vagus Nerve Diseases, Vestibular Nerve. (references) |
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Health | Bell's palsy is a form of facial paralysis resulting from damage to the 7th (facial) cranial nerve. (references) | |
NF2 is characterized by bilateral (occurring on both sides of the body) tumors on the eighth cranial nerve. (references) | ||
One of the more common forms of schwannoma affects the eighth cranial nerve, which contains nerve cells important for balance and hearing. (references) | ||
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Expressions using "cranial nerve": Cranial Nerve Diseases ♦ Cranial Nerve Injuries ♦ Cranial Nerve Neoplasms ♦ eight cranial nerve ♦ eighth cranial nerve ♦ eleventh cranial nerve ♦ fifth cranial nerve ♦ first cranial nerve ♦ fourth cranial nerve ♦ ninth cranial nerve ♦ second cranial nerve ♦ seventh cranial nerve ♦ sixth cranial nerve ♦ tenth cranial nerve ♦ third cranial nerve ♦ twelfth cranial nerve. Additional references. | |
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| Language | Translations for "cranial nerve"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | nervus acusticus (acoustic nerve, auditory nerve, cochlear nerve, eight cranial nerve), hoerenerven (acoustic nerve, auditory nerve, eight cranial nerve), hjernenervesyndrom (cranial nerve syndrome), 8. kranienerve (acoustic nerve, auditory nerve, eight cranial nerve). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | nervus cranialis, nervus cerebralis, hersenzenuw. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | nerf cranien, nerf cranial, nerf crânien. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Schädel-Nerv. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | nervo cranico. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | anialcray ervenay síndrome de compressão dos nervos cranianos (cranial nerve syndrome). (various references) nervio craneal. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-e-i-l-n-n-r-r-v" | |
-3 letters: carnelian. | |
-4 letters: annealer, carnival, cavalier, encaenia, larcener, narceine, nearlier, recliner, reliance, valencia, valerian, valiance, variance, vernacle, vernicle. | |
-5 letters: acarine, alanine, aliener, arrival, avarice, cannier, caravel, carinae, carinal, carline, caviare, caviler, cervine, clavier, cleaner, clearer, cleaver, cranial, earlier, encinal, enclave, enliven, innerve, learier, learner, leavier, livener, narcein, nervier, nervine, nirvana, railcar, raveler, ravelin, ravener. | |
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