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| Sensory nerve that transmits sense of smell |
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| Sensory nerve that transmits visual information to the brain |
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| Mainly motor. Innervates all rectus' and inferior oblique, which collectively perform most eye movements; also innervates m. sphincter pupillae, as well as the muscles of the ciliary body |
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| Mainly motor. Innervates superior oblique muscle, which depresses, rotates laterally, and intorts the eyeball. |
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| Mixed. Receives sensation from the face and innervates the muscles of mastication; Located in the superior orbital fissure |
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| Motor. Innervates the lateral rectus, which abducts the eye |
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| Mixed. Motor innervation to the muscles of facial expression, posterior belly of the digastric muscle, and stapedius muscle, receives the special sense of taste from the anterior 2/3 of tongue, and secretomotor innervation to the salivary glands |
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| Vestibulocochlear Nerve 8 |
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| Sensory. Senses sound, roation and gravity (balance and movement) Vestibular branch carries impulses for equilibrium and the cochlear branch carries carries impulses for hearing. Acoustic Canal |
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| Mixed. Medulla. Taste from 1/3 posterior of tounge. Secretomotor to parotid gland and motor innervation to stylopharyngeus. Sensation is relayed to opposite thalamus and some hypothalamic nuclei |
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| Mixed. Branchiomotor innervation to most laryngeal and all pharyngeal muscles. Provides parasympathetic fibers to nearly all thoracic and abdominal viscera down to the splenic flexure; all special sense of taste from the epiglottis. *Controls muscles for voice and resonance and the soft palate. |
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| Motor. Controls sternocleidmastoid and trapezius muscles, overlaps with functions of vagus. |
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| Motor. Medulla. Motor innervation to tongue muscles and speech articulation |
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