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Definition of Trigeminal

1. Noun. The main sensory nerve of the face and motor nerve for the muscles of mastication.

Definition of Trigeminal

1. a. Of, pertaining to, or designating, the fifth pair of cranial nerves, which divide on each side of the head into three main branches distributed to the orbits, jaws, and parts of the mouth; trifacial.

Definition of Trigeminal

1. Adjective. (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the trigeminal nerve (the fifth cranial nerve). ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Trigeminal

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Medical Definition of Trigeminal

1. Of, pertaining to, or designating, the fifth pair of cranial nerves, which divide on each side of the head into three main branches distributed to the orbits, jaws, and parts of the mouth; trifacial. See: Trigeminous. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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Literary usage of Trigeminal

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

1. Medical Record by George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman (1886)
"Sneezing and snuffling are the constant attendants of this trigeminal cough, ... The paroxysm of the trigeminal cough has a striking resemblance to the ..."

2. The Anatomy of the Nervous System from the Standpoint of Development and by Stephen Walter Ranson (1920)
"The Exteroceptive Paths Associated with the trigeminal Nerve. ... The fibers of the second order in the sensory paths of the trigeminal nerve arise from ..."

3. The Origin of Vertebrates by Walter Holbrook Gaskell (1908)
"Number of segments belonging to the trigeminal nerve-group.—History of cranial segments.—Eye-muscles and their nerves.—Comparison with the dorso-ventral ..."

4. The Gross and Minute Anatomy of the Central Nervous System by Hermon C. Gordinier (1899)
"The sensory end nucleus of the trigeminal nerve is connected with the ... According to some observers, fibers from the sensory trigeminal roots pass ..."

5. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1894)
"Disease of the Middle Ear after Removal of the trigeminal Nerve.—In 1893, Czerny operated for the relief of old-standing trigeminal neuralgia, on a patient, ..."

6. Anatomy of the Human Body by Henry Gray (1918)
"The trigeminal Nerve (V cranial) contains somatic motor and somatic sensory fibers. The motor fibers arise in the motor nucleus of the trigeminal and pass ..."

7. A Laboratory Text-book of Embryology by Charles Sedgwick Minot (1903)
"LR, Lateral root of the trigeminal nerve. mes, Mesenchyma. ... Section through the trigeminal Roots.—The section passes through the widest part of the ..."

8. On the Archetype and Homologies of the Vertebrate Skeleton by Richard Owen (1848)
"... squamosal towards its more normal exterior position in the vertebrate series, the third division of the trigeminal now perforates its middle part (fig. ..."

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