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Seventh cranial nerve: The seventh cranial nerve is the facial nerve, a mixed nerve that has fibers both going out and coming in (both efferent and afferent fibers). It supplies the muscles of facial expression.
Paralysis of the facial nerve causes a characteristic picture with drooping of one side of the face, inability to wrinkle the forehead, inability to whistle, inability to close the eye and deviation of the mouth toward the other side of the face. Paralysis of the facial nerve is called Bell's palsy.
Bell's Palsy information (7th cranial nerve). ... Muscle: Function: Epicranius (Occipitofrontalis) Raises eyebrows, wrinkles forehead horizontally
Library > Literature & Language > Dictionary n. Either of the seventh pair of cranial nerves that control facial muscles and relay sensation from the taste buds of ...
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Seventh cranial nerve paralysis: Known as Bell's palsy, this is paralysis of the facial nerve, the nerve that supplies the facial muscles on one side of the face.
Seventh cranial nerve: The seventh cranial nerve is the facial nerve, a mixed nerve that has fibers both going out and coming in (both efferent and afferent fibers).