CH17: Cranial Nerves Table

Question 1

What CN is involved with rotating the head?

Answer 1

accessory (XI)

Question 2

What CN is involved in smelling a flower?

Answer 2

Olfactory (I)

Question 3

What CN is involved in raising the eyelids, pupillary constriction?

Answer 3

Oculomotor (III) and Vagus (X)

Question 4

What CN is involved in slowing the heart, increasing motility of the digestive tract?

Answer 4

Vagus (X)

Question 5

What CN is involved in Bell’s Palsy (facial paralysis)?

Answer 5

Facial (VII)

Question 6

What CN is involved in chewing food?

Answer 6

trigeminal (V)

Question 7

What CN is involved in listening to music and seasickness?

Answer 7

vestibulocochlear (VIII)

Question 8

What CN is involved in secretion of saliva; tasting well seasoned food

Answer 8

Facial (VII)

Question 9

What CN is involved in rolling the eyes (three nerves)

Answer 9

III, IV, and VI

Question 10

What CN is involved in feeling a toothache?

Answer 10

trigeminal (V)

Question 11

What CN is involved in reading the newspaper?

Answer 11

Optic (II)

Question 12

What CN is purely or mostly sensory in function (three nerves)

Answer 12

I, II, VII

Question 13

What is the Mnemonic to remember the cranial nerves?

Answer 13

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Question 14

What is the Mnemonic for sensory, motor, or both

Answer 14

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