Trigeminal Nerve

Domain	Definition
Health	The 5th and largest cranial nerve. The trigeminal nerve is a mixed motor and sensory nerve. The larger sensory part forms the ophthalmic, mandibular, and maxillary nerves which carry afferents sensitive to external or internal stimuli from the skin, muscles, and joints of the face and mouth and from the teeth. Most of these fibers originate from cells of the trigeminal ganglion and project to the trigeminal nucleus of the brain stem. The smaller motor part arises from the brain stem trigeminal motor nucleus and innervates the muscles of mastication. (references)
Medicine	Cranial nerve V. It is sensory for the eyeball, the conjunctiva, the eyebrow, the skin of face and scalp, the teeth, the mucous membranes in the mouth and nose, and is motor to the muscles of mastication. Source: European Union. (references)
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Specialty Definition: Trigeminal nerve

The trigeminal nerve is the fifth (V) cranial nerve, so named because it splits into three nerves - the Opthalmic nerve (V₁), the Maxillary nerve (V₂) and the Mandibular nerve (V₃).

It is the major cutaneous sensory nerve of the head, and is responsible for sensation over most of the skin on your head. It also supplies motor fibres to temporalis muscle, lateral pterygoid muscle, medial pterygoid muscle, masseter muscle (the four main muscles involved in mastication), tensor veli palatini, mylohyoid muscle and the tensor tympani muscle.

Trigeminal neuralgia is an example of a disorder of the trigeminal nerve where the sufferer suffers pain in the territory of the trigeminal nerve innervation.

Named branches of the trigeminal nerve: (important branches in bold)

Opthalmic nerve (V₁)

Nasociliary nerve
- sensory root of ciliary ganglion
- posterior ethmodial nerve
- long ciliary nerve
- infrathrochlear nerve
- anterior ethmoidal nerve
lacrimal nerve
frontal nerve
- supratrochlear nerve
- supraorbital nerve

Maxillary nerve (V₂)

zygomaticotemporal nerve
zygomaticofacial nerve
infraorbital nerve
superior alveolar nerves
Pterygopalatine ganglion
- nasopalatine nerve
- greater palatine nerve
- lesser palatine nerves
- nerve of pterygoid canal (Vidian nerve)

Mandibular nerve (V₃)

deep temporal nerves (to temporalis muscle)
lateral pterygoid nerve
medial pterygoid nerve
masseteric nerve
tensor veli palatini nerve
tensor tempani nerve
auriculotemporal nerve
buccal nerve
Lingual nerve
Inferior alveolar nerve
- mylohyoid nerve
- inferior dental plexus
- mental nerve

Non-Fiction Usage: Trigeminal Nerve

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Patients who do not respond to drugs may be helped by surgery on the trigeminal nerve. (references)
		Trigeminal neuralgia, also called tic douloureux, is a condition that affects the trigeminal nerve (the 5th cranial nerve), one of the largest nerves in the head. The trigeminal nerve is responsible for sending impulses of touch, pain, pressure, and temperature to the brain from the face, jaw, gums, forehead, and around the eyes. Trigeminal neuralgia is characterized by a sudden, severe, electric shock-like or stabbing pain typically felt on one side of the jaw or cheek. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expression: Trigeminal Nerve

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Trigeminal Nerve

Modern Translation: Trigeminal Nerve

Language		Translations for "trigeminal nerve"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		nervus trigeminus (trifacial nerve). (various references)

Dutch		nervus trigeminus (trifacial nerve), nervus quintus (trifacial nerve), drielingzenuw. (various references)

Finnish		nucleus spinalis nervi trigemini (nucleus of trigeminal nerve, spinal trigimeninal nucleus), kolmoishermon selkäydintumake (nucleus of trigeminal nerve, spinal trigimeninal nucleus). (various references)

French		trijumeau, nerf trijumeau (trifacial nerve), nerf trigéminal (trifacial nerve). (various references)

German		Nervus trigeminus (trifacial nerve). (various references)

Italian		nervo trigemino (trifacial nerve). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		三叉神経 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		さ�"さし�"けい. (various references)

Pig Latin		igeminaltray ervenay

Spanish		nervio mandibular (a sensory root which comes from the Gasserian ganglion, and the motor root of the trigeminal, mandibular nerve, the third division of the trigeminal nerve consisting of two roots), núcleo trigémino espinal (nucleus of trigeminal nerve, spinal trigimeninal nucleus), núcleo sensitivo superior del nervio trigémino (superior sensory nucleus of trigeminal nerve), núcleo sensitivo principal del nervio trigémino (superior sensory nucleus of trigeminal nerve), núcleo motor del nervio trigémino (motor nucleus of trigeminal nerve), núcleo del nervio trigémino (nucleus of trigeminal nerve, spinal trigimeninal nucleus). (various references)

Swedish		spinal trigeminuskärna (nucleus of trigeminal nerve, spinal trigimeninal nucleus). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: Trigeminal Nerve

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-e-e-g-i-i-l-m-n-n-r-r-t-v"
	-3 letters: interleaving, inveiglement.
	-4 letters: enlargement, germinative, greenmailer, interlinear, intermingle, realignment, reinnervate, reverential.
	-5 letters: alimenting, antimerger, enervating, garnierite, generative, gravimeter, interleave, interliner, interregna, interrenal, intervener, irrelative, irrelevant, malingerer, realtering, reentering, regimental, relearning, retraining, retrieving, revealment, revilement, trailering, trigeminal, venerating.
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Expression	Frequency per Day
trigeminal nerve	80
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Trigeminal Nerve

Definition: Trigeminal Nerve