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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Either of the seventh pair of cranial nerves that control facial muscles and relay sensation from the taste buds of the front part of the tongue.
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- n. neuroanatomy The seventh (VII) of twelve paired cranial nerves.
WordNet 3.0
- n. cranial nerve that supplies facial muscles
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“Thus the illustrious physiologist Müller, says,17 "The completely different expression of the features in different passions shows that, according to the kind of feeling excited, entirely different groups of the fibres of the facial nerve are acted on.”
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biocon The facial nerve is either of the 7th pair of cranial nerves emanating from the cranium on either side via the internal acoustic meatus, passing through the canal for the facial nerve, emerging at the stylomastoid foramen to supply motor fibers to the facial muscles, musculus stylohyoideus and venter posterior musculi digastrici, and sending a separate mixed (sensory and motor) branch to the tongue, which conducts the gustatory neural fibers from the anterior two thirds of the tongue and parasympathetic neural fibers to the sphenopalatine ganglion and submaxillary ganglion. Aug 13, 2011