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Definition: Facial Nerve |
Facial NerveNoun1. Cranial nerve that supplies facial muscles. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Health | 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. (references) |
Medicine | Cranial nerve VII, a mixed nerve arising from the ponsmedulla junction. It is efferent to the muscles of facial expression. It carries taste fibers from the anterior two thirds of the tongue. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonyms: Facial NerveSynonyms: facial (n), nervus facialis (n), seventh cranial nerve (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Facial Nerve |
| English words defined with "facial nerve": facial ♦ gustatory cell ♦ nervus facialis ♦ platysma ♦ Ramsay Hunt syndrome ♦ seventh cranial nerve ♦ taste cell. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "facial nerve": Abducens Nerve Injury ♦ Bell paralysis, Bell's palsy, Bell's paralysis ♦ Chorda Tympani Nerve, Chvostek's ♦ Facial Nerve Diseases, Facial Nerve Injuries, Facial Paralysis ♦ Geniculate Ganglion, glossopalatine, glossopalatine nerve ♦ intermediate nerve of Wrisberg ♦ parotid bed, parotid space ♦ Taste Buds, Trigeminal Nerve Diseases. (references) |
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Health | Very commonly, hemifacial spasm is caused by a blood vessel pressing on the facial nerve. (references) | |
The condition may be caused by a facial nerve injury or a tumor, or it may have no apparent cause. (references) | ||
In most cases, it is due to mechanical irritation of the facial nerve in the posterior fossa or distally. (references) | ||
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Expressions using "facial nerve": Facial Nerve Diseases ♦ Facial Nerve Injuries. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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facial nerve | 19 |
facial nerve paralysis | 7 |
anatomy facial nerve | 7 |
facial nerve damage | 6 |
facial nerve pain | 4 |
disorder facial nerve | 4 |
facial nerve palsy | 3 |
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| Language | Translations for "facial nerve"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | nervus facialis. (various references) | |
Dutch | nervus facialis, nervus communicans faciei, aangezichtszenuw. (various references) | |
French | nerf facial. (various references) | |
German | Nervus facialis. (various references) | |
Greek | κινητική μοίρα του μετωπικού νεύρου (motor part of the facial nerve), ρίζα του προσωπικού νεύρου (root of the facial nerve), προσωπικόν τρήμα (canal for facial nerve). (various references) | |
Hungarian | arcideg. (various references) | |
Italian | nervo facciale, nervo dell'espressione. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | acialfay ervenay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | expressão facial. (various references) | |
Spanish | nervio facial. (various references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-e-f-i-l-n-r-v" | |
-3 letters: carnival, cavalier, flanerie, reliance, valencia, valerian, valiance, variance, vernacle, vernicle. | |
-4 letters: acarine, aliener, avarice, caravel, carinae, carinal, carline, caviare, caviler, cervine, clavier, cleaner, cleaver, cranial, enclave, faience, fancier, fiancee, filaree, flavine, leafier, leavier, livener, ravelin, reavail, reclean, recline, valance, valence, valeric, vealier, velaria. | |
-5 letters: acinar, aecial, aerial, alevin, aliner, alvine, anlace, arcane, arnica, carafe, careen, carina, carlin, carnal, carnie, carvel, carven, cavern, caviar, ceiler, cereal, claver, cleave, clever, crania, craven, crenel, eclair, enface, enlace, envier, eviler, evince, facial, facile, faecal, faerie, fainer, farcie, farina, favela, fecial, feline, fencer, feriae, ferial, ferine, ferlie, fiacre, fiance, fierce, finale, flavin, fraena, infare, inlace, lacier, lancer, larine, larvae, laveer, leaner, leaven, leaver, levier, liefer, lierne, liever, linear, nailer, naiver, narial, racial, ravine, realia, recane, reface, refile, refine, relace, relief, reline, relive, renail, reveal, revile, vainer, valine, vealer, veiler, veinal, veiner, venial, venire, vernal, vineal. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 61 63 69 61 6C 4E 65 72 76 65 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01100001 01100011 01101001 01100001 01101100 00100000 01001110 01100101 01110010 01110110 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F a c i a l   N e r v e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0061 0063 0069 0061 006C 004E 0065 0072 0076 0065 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)40676975677824871848871 |
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