Facial Nerves

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bnanders  on June 6, 2011

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Facial Nerves

Olfactory (l)
-provides sense of smell
-damage causes impaired sense of smell
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Olfactory (l) -provides sense of smell
-damage causes impaired sense of smell
optic (ll) -provides vision
-damage causes blindness
Oculomotor (lll) -provides some eye movement; opening of eyelid
-constriction of pupil (parasympathetic)
-focusing
-damage causes drooping of eyelid, dialated pupil, double vision, diff. focusing, inability to move eye in certain directions
Trochlear (lV) -provides eye movement
-damage causes double vision (diplopia), and inability to rotate eye downward & upward
Trigeminal (V) -3 branches
-----opthalmic, maxilarry, & mandibular
-main sensory nerve to face (touch, pain, & temp)
-muscles of mastication
-damage causes loss of sensation and impaired chewing
Abducens (Vl) -provides eye mvmt (lateral rectus)
-damage causes inibility to rotate eye laterally
-at rest eye rotates medially
-strabismus-crosseyed
Facial (Vll) -provides facial expressions, taste on anterior 2/3s of tounge
-salvary and tear glands, nasal and palatine glands
-damage results in sagging facial muscles (ptosis and corner of mouth droops), disturbed tastes (no sweet or salty sensations)
Auditory (vestibulochlear) (Vlll) -provides hearing and sense of balance
-damage produces deafness, diziness, nausea, loss of balance, and nystagmus(invol eye mvmt)
glossopharyngeal (lX) -provides control over swallowing, salivation, gagging, sensations of posterior 1/3s of tounge, control of bp and respiration (receptors in carotid)
-damage results in loss of bitter & sour tastes, and impaired swallowing (dysphagia)
Vagus (X) -innervertes the pharyns, larynx, & abdominal and thoracic viscera (int. organs)
-most motor fibers are parasympathetic that control digestion & help regulate heart activity
-damage causes hoarsness of loss of voice, impaired swallowing
Accessory (Xl) -provides swallowing; head, neck & sholder mvmt
------ head turns toward injured side
-damage causes impaired head, neck, & sholder mvmt
Hypoglossal (Xll) -provides tounge mvmts of speech, food manipulation, and swallowing
-damage: inavility to protrude tounge is vilateral damage
-deviation towards injured side

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