Facial Nerve

The 7th cranial nerve. The facial nerve has two parts, the larger motor root which may be called the facial nerve proper, and the smaller intermediate or sensory root. Together they provide efferent innervation to the muscles of facial expression and to the lacrimal and SALIVARY GLANDS, and convey afferent information for TASTE from the anterior two-thirds of the TONGUE and for TOUCH from the EXTERNAL EAR.

Also Known As:

Nerve VII; Nerve of Wrisberg; Nervus Facialis; Nervus Intermedius; Nervus Intermedius of Wrisberg; Cranial Nerve VIIs; Cranial Nerve, Seventh; Facial Nerves; Mandibular Nerve, Marginal; Mandibular Nerves, Marginal; Marginal Mandibular Nerves; Nerve VIIs; Nerve, Facial; Nerve, Marginal Mandibular; Nerve, Seventh Cranial; Nerves, Marginal Mandibular; Nervus Faciali; Seventh Cranial Nerves; Wrisberg Nerve; Wrisberg Nervus Intermedius; Cranial Nerve VII; Marginal Mandibular Branch; Marginal Mandibular Nerve; Seventh Cranial Nerve

Nervous System
- Peripheral Nervous System
  - Autonomic Nervous System
    - Autonomic Pathways
      - Facial Nerve
    - Parasympathetic Nervous System
      - Facial Nerve
  - Peripheral Nerves
    - Autonomic Pathways
      - Facial Nerve
    - Cranial Nerves
      - Facial Nerve

Cranial Nerves

Context: Research Results