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Definition of Seventh cranial nerve

1. Noun. Cranial nerve that supplies facial muscles.

Medical Definition of Seventh cranial nerve

1. The facial nerve enervates the muscles of the face (facial expression). Lesion of the facial nerve cause a drooping to one side of the face, inability to wrinkle the forehead, inability to whistle, inability to close the eye and deviation of the mouth to the unaffected side. Synonym: cranial nerve VII. (27 Sep 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Seventh Cranial Nerve

Literary usage of Seventh cranial nerve

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science by Iowa Academy of Science (1904)
"... and Perenni- branchs* describes a peculiar branch of the seventh cranial nerve in Amphiuma, distributed, according to his statement, ..."

2. The Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science by Iowa Academy of Science (1904)
"... trunk of the seventh cranial nerve ar branches. The first is Jacobson's commissure, passai; posteriorly and dorsally to anastomose with the glosso- ..."

3. A Treatise on the principles and practice of medicine: Designed for the Use by Austin Flint (1868)
"Paralysis of the seventh cranial nerve. Paralysis of the Eighth Cranial Nerve. Paralysis of the Ninth Cranial Nerve. Local Paralysis of other than Cranial ..."

4. A Treatise on the Principles and Practice of Medicine: Designed for the Use by Austin Flint (1867)
"... Nerve—Paralysis of (he Sixth Cranial Nerve—Paralysis of the Seventh Cranial Nerve—Paralysis of the Eighth Cranial Nerve— Paralysis of the Ninth Cranial ..."

5. A Treatise on the principles and practice of medicine: Designed for the Use by Austin Flint, Frederick Porteous Henry (1894)
"Paralysis of the Motor Portion of the seventh cranial nerve.—Paralysis of the Eighth Cranial Nerves.— Paralysis of the Ninth Cranial Nerve. ..."

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