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Definition of Trigeminal nerve

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

Definition of Trigeminal nerve

1. Noun. (anatomy) The nerve responsible for sensation and motor function in the face and mouth. ¹

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Medical Definition of Trigeminal nerve

1. The trigeminal nerve is responsible for sensory enervation of the face and motor enervation to muscles of mastication (chewing). There are three divisions of the fifth cranial nerve, ophthalmic, maxillary and mandibular. Lesions of the sensory root to the trigeminal nerve can result in pain or loss of sensation in the face. Lesion of the motor root result in deviation of the jaw toward the paralysed side and difficulty chewing. Synonym: cranial nerve V. (27 Sep 1997)

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Literary usage of Trigeminal nerve

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1. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"NV The trigeminal nerve (N. trigeminus) The motor root is small, and innervates the muscles of mastication. The sensory root, with its gasserian ganglion, ..."

2. Quain's Elements of Anatomy by Jones Quain, Edward Albert Schäfer, Johnson Symington, Thomas Hastie Bryce (1909)
"The fifth or trigeminal nerve is the largest of the cerebral nerves, and resembles a spinal nerve in the circumstance that it arises by separate sensory ..."

3. 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 tri- geminal nerve mediates tactile, thermal, and painful sensations from a large part of ..."

4. 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, ..."

5. Hand-book of physiology by William Senhouse Kirkes (1872)
"Physiology of the Fifth or trigeminal nerve. The fifth or trigeminal nerve resembles, as already stated, the spinal nerves, in that its branches are derived ..."

6. The British Journal of Dermatology by British Association of Dermatology (1907)
"This scar accurately mapped out the distribution of the first, division of the trigeminal nerve on the right side, it was deeply punched out, and the floor ..."

7. The Origin of Vertebrates by Walter Holbrook Gaskell (1908)
"Number of segments belonging to the trigeminal nerve-group. ... Is there morphological evidence that the trigeminal nerve is not the nerve belonging to a ..."

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