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12 Cards in this Set
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Olfactory |
Location: Olfactory Bulb
Function: Transmits the sense of smell |
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Optic |
Location: Optic chiasma
Function: Transmits visual information to the brain |
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Occulomotor |
Location: Midbrain
Function: Innervates the dorsal rectus, medial rectus, ventral rectus, and ventral oblique, which collectively perform most eye movements |
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Trochlear |
Location: Midbrain (dorsal)
Function: Innervates the superior oblique muscle, which depresses, pulls laterally, and intorts the |
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Trigeminal |
Location: Pons
Function: Receives sensation from the face and innervates the muscles of mastication |
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Abducens |
Location: Medulla Oblongata
Function: Innervates the lateral rectus, which abducts the eye and the retractor bulbi which forces the third eyelid across the surface of the cornea as a protective mechanism. |
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Facial |
Location: Medulla Oblongata
Function: Provides motor innervation to the muscles of facial expression and stapedius, receives the special sense of taste from the anterior 2/3 of the tongue, and provides secretomotor innervation to the salivary glands (except parotid) and the lacrimal gland |
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Vestibulocochlear |
Location: Medulla Oblongata
Function: Senses sound, rotation and gravity (essential for balance & movement) |
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Glossopharyngeal |
Location: Medulla Oblongata
Function: Receives taste from the posterior 1/3 of the tongue, provides secretomotor innervation to the parotid gland, and provides motor innervation to the stylopharyngeus |
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Vagus |
Location: Medulla Oblongata
Function: Supplies branchiomotor innervation to most laryngeal and haryngeal muscles; provides |
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Accessory |
Location: Medulla Oblongata
Function: Controls muscles of the neck and overlaps with functions of the vagus |
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Hypoglossal |
Location: Medulla Oblongata
Function: Provides motor innervation to the intrinsic muscles of the tongue and other glossal muscles |
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