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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Trigeminal.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or pertaining to the face in a threefold manner: specifically applied to the fifth cranial nerve, or trigeminus, which divides into three main branches to supply the face and some other parts, and has the threefold function of a nerve of motion, of common sensation, and of special sense (gustatory).
  • Of or pertaining to the trifacial nerve.
  • noun The trigeminal nerve.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Anat.) See trigeminal.

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  • adjective trigeminal

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