Summary: Cranial Nerves

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  • What does the olfactory nerve do?

    It supplies olfactory epithelium. Retrieves smell from nasal mucosa of each nasal cavity, nasal septum and superior conchae.
  • What dies the optic nerve do?

    Supplies nerve cell bodies in the retina --> vision
  • Where does the optic nerve exit?

    the orbital canal
  • What disease can affect the optic nerve?

    Multiple sclerosis (demyelinating disease)
  • What are the two motor functions of the oculomotor nerve?

    Somatic and Visceral
  • What does the somatic motor of the oculomotor nerve supply?

    Superior rectus, medial rectus, inferior oblique, leavtor palpera superioris
  • What does the visceral motor of the oculomotor nerve supply?

    Parasympathetic sphincter papillae and ciliary muscle via the ciliary ganglion
  • what does the somatic motor of the trochlear nerve supply?

    motor to superior oblique muscle of eye
  • what are the 3 branches of the trigeminal nerve?

    ophthalmic 
    maxillary
    mandibular
  • what is the function of the ophthalmic branch of the trigeminal nerve?

    general sensory - sensation from cornea, skin of forehead, scalp, eyelids, nose, mucosa of nasal cavities and paranasal sinuses
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