Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun   In zoology and anatomy, the trifacial nerve. See trifacial .
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- noun   trigeminal nerve 
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- noun the main sensory nerve of the face and motor nerve for the muscles of mastication
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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								Rheumatic neuralgia in other nerves, as in the trigeminus, so often found in anemic women, is often relieved by massage in a few treatments. 
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								The more important men were Lorenz Gasser (professor 1757-65; trigeminus), Joseph Barth The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913 
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								Communications are also on record of local decolorization of the eyebrows and lashes in neuralgias of isolated branches of the trigeminus, especially of the supraorbital nerve. 
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								Communications are also on record of local decolorization of the eyebrows and lashes in neuralgias of isolated branches of the trigeminus, especially of the supraorbital nerve. 
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								Oxyrhopus trigeminus; while in other parts of South America similar cases of mimicry occur, sometimes two harmless species imitating the same poisonous snake. Darwinism (1889) Alfred Russel Wallace 1868 
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								In Brazil Elaps lemniscatus is copied by Oxyrhopus trigeminus, both having black rings disposed in threes. Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays Alfred Russel Wallace 1868 
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								(whether nervous or arising from caries), neuralgia of the trigeminus, of the cervico-brachial plexus, etc. Scientific American Supplement, No. 299, September 24, 1881 Various 
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								102 An additional case of snake mimicry in _Oxyrhopus trigeminus_. Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays Alfred Russel Wallace 1868 
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								If the impulse is stronger it strikes the roots of the motor end of the trigeminus and the movement of the muscles of mastication occur; then the intensified affection spreads through the other features. " Criminal Psychology: a manual for judges, practitioners, and students 1911 
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