trigeminal nerve


noun
  1. either one of the fifth pair of cranial nerves, which supply the muscles of the mandible and maxilla. Their ophthalmic branches supply the area around the orbit of the eye, the nasal cavity, and the forehead

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How to use trigeminal nerve in a sentence

  • Anteriorly it is pierced by a pair of small foramina through which the ophthalmic branches of the trigeminal nerve pass out.

    The Vertebrate Skeleton | Sidney H. Reynolds
  • These perforate the palatine and transmit branches of the trigeminal nerve and certain blood-vessels.

    The Vertebrate Skeleton | Sidney H. Reynolds
  • All the muscles belonging to this oral chamber are of the visceral type, and are innervated by the trigeminal nerve.

    The Origin of Vertebrates | Walter Holbrook Gaskell
  • The metastoma, which has become in Ammocœtes the lower lip supplied by the velar or mandibular branch of the trigeminal nerve ; 2.

    The Origin of Vertebrates | Walter Holbrook Gaskell
  • In Fig. 114, Miss Alcock has drawn the distribution of the trigeminal nerve as traced by her through a series of sections.

    The Origin of Vertebrates | Walter Holbrook Gaskell

Scientific definitions for trigeminal nerve

trigeminal nerve

[ trī-jĕmə-nəl ]


  1. Either of the fifth pair of cranial nerves, having sensory and motor functions in the face, teeth, mouth, and nasal cavity.

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