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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Any of several nerves that arise in pairs from the brain stem and reach the periphery through openings in the skull. There are 12 such pairs in mammals, birds, and reptiles and usually 10 pairs in amphibians and fish.

Wiktionary

  1. n. neuroanatomy Any of the twelve paired nerves that originate from the brainstem instead of the spinal cord.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. any of the 12 paired nerves that originate in the brain stem

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hypernyms (2)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. nervus
  1. nerve

hyponyms (53)

Words that are more specific

  1. accessory nerve
  2. acoustic nerve
  3. oculomotor
  4. second cranial nerve
  5. trigeminus
  6. optic nerve
  7. nervii olfactorii
  8. spinal accessory
  9. nervus abducens
  10. glossopharyngeal nerve
  1. nervus accessorius
  2. nervus vestibulocochlearis
  3. eighth cranial nerve
  4. nervus facialis
  5. abducent nerve
  6. eleventh cranial nerve
  7. ninth cranial nerve
  8. facial nerve
  9. olfactory nerve
  10. abducens nerve
  1. nervus hypoglosus
  2. third cranial nerve
  3. hypoglossal
  4. trochlear
  5. tenth cranial nerve
  6. hypoglossal nerve
  7. nervus glossopharyngeus
  8. fifth cranial nerve
  9. pneumogastric nerve
  10. vestibulocochlear nerve
  1. nervus vagus
  2. trigeminal
  3. trochlearis
  4. wandering nerve
  5. vagus nerve
  6. first cranial nerve
  7. trigeminal nerve
  8. sixth cranial nerve
  9. pneumogastric
  10. seventh cranial nerve
  1. twelfth cranial nerve
  2. trochlear nerve
  3. auditory nerve
  4. nervus oculomotorius
  5. fourth cranial nerve
  6. facial
  7. nervus trigeminus
  8. optic tract
  9. abducent
  10. abducens
  1. oculomotor nerve
  2. nervus opticus
  3. vagus

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. acoustic nerve
  2. vagus
  3. abducens
  4. vagus nerve
  5. second cranial nerve
  6. seventh cranial nerve
  1. spinal accessory
  2. eleventh cranial nerve
  3. facial nerve
  4. nervus accessorius
  5. nervus facialis
  6. nervus opticus
  1. optic nerve
  2. optic tract
  3. accessory nerve
  4. facial
  5. oculomotor
  6. trigeminal
  1. infratrochlear
  2. brain
  3. thalamus
  4. trifacial
  5. patheticus
  6. gasserian ganglion
  1. pyramidal motor system
  2. pyramidal tract
  3. shingles
  4. corticospinal tract
  5. nervous system
  6. pathetic nerve
  1. foramen
  2. hypoglossus
  3. orbitosphenoid

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