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Definition of Trigeminus
1. Noun. The main sensory nerve of the face and motor nerve for the muscles of mastication.
Generic synonyms: Cranial Nerve
Definition of Trigeminus
1. Noun. trigeminal nerve ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Trigeminus
1. Synonym: trigeminal. Origin: L. Threefold, fr. Tri-+ geminus, twin (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Trigeminus
Literary usage of Trigeminus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Text-book of medicine for students and practitioners by Adolf von Strümpell (1901)
"Anaesthesia in the region of the trigeminus demands a brief special description.
4. Anesthesia of the trigeminus is observed in tumors, syphilitic new ..."
2. A Text-book of Practical Medicine: With Particular Reference to Physiology by Felix von Niemeyer (1883)
"In still others, which indeed are the most common of all, a few twigs only of
the trigeminus have been cut through, or have been destroyed by ..."
3. A Text-book of practical medicine v. 2: With Particular Reference to by Felix von Niemeyer (1874)
"Next to the sciatic, no nerve is so often the seat of pain as the trigeminus.
This is partly because many branches of the ..."
4. Medical Diagnosis: Special Diagnosis of Internal Medicine by Wilhelm von Leube, Julius Lincoln Salinger (1904)
"NEURALGIA OF INDIVIDUAL NERVES NEURALGIA OF THE trigeminus NERVE, PROSOPALGIA
Those principles which have been thoroughly expounded in the diagnosis of ..."
5. Special Pathology and Diagnostics: With Therapeutic Hints by Charles Godlove Raue (1881)
"When the anaesthesia extends over the whole ramification of the trigeminus, the
cause of the affection then lies in the ganglion ..."
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