What are Cranial Nerves

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What are Cranial Nerves?

• Cranial nerves part of a set of nerves
  controlling sensory motor information of the
  head, connecting to nuclei in the medulla, pons,
  midbrain, or forebrain

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vous/grosscns/brain2/brain.html
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Location of Cranial Nerves

• Try to identify
• Optic nerve
• Oculomotor nerve
• Trochlear nerve
• Trigeminal nerve
• Abducens nerve

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• I - Olfactory
• II - Optic
• III - Oculomotor
• IV - Trochlear
• V - Trigeminal
• VI - Abducens
• VII - Facial
• VIII - Auditory
• IX - Glossopharyngeal
• X - Vagus
• XI - Accessory
• XII - Hypoglassal

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