Facial-nerve Synonyms

Cranial nerve that supplies facial muscles
Synonyms:
  1. nervus facialis
  2. seventh cranial nerve
  3. cranial nerve VII
  4. facial
  5. cranial nerve seven

Facial-nerve Sentence Examples

  • In cases where there has been trauma, facial nerve decompression may be justified.

  • In 1821, he published his anatomic diagrams of the course of the facial nerve and its innervation of the facial musculature.

  • A surgical procedure involving decompression of the facial nerve through extremely delicate microsurgery has, in severe cases, also been done.

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