Cranial nerve that branches into the supraorbital (supplying the skin of the eye region and the lateral line organs here), the palatine (to the roof of the buccal cavity), and the hyomandibular (dividing into the jugular and mental branches). [ https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=bn%3A0471209627 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facial_nerve ]
Synonyms: facial nerve tree nervus facialis face nerve nervus facialis [vii] seventh cranial nerve facial VII facial VII nerve branchiomeric cranial nerve facial nerve [VII] nerve of face
Term information
- EHDAA2:0000489
- TAO:0000664
- ZFA:0000664
- MESH:D005154
- BAMS:VIIn
- EMAPA:17796
- HBA:9328
- MA:0001091
- UMLS:C0015462 (ncithesaurus:Facial_Nerve)
- BAMS:Viin
- AAO:0010472
- BAMS:7n
- BM:Pons-VIIN
- FMA:50868
- MBA:798
- neuronames:551 (BIRNLEX:827)
- SCTID:362460007
- Wikipedia:Facial_nerve
- BAMS:nVII
- VHOG:0000706
- BIRNLEX:827
- EHDAA:3729
- GAID:719
- XAO:0003094
- NCIT:C12714
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Slender nerve composed of branchiomotor and visceral efferent fibers innervating the mouth and various muscles within the jaw. Sensory components innervate the bucccal roof and somatomotor components innervate the depressor musculature and muscle interhyoideus.[AAO]
facial nerve or its root
facial nerve/root
CN-VII
nervus facialis
cranial nerve VII
nerve VII
We conclude this section by listing some of the many synapomorphies of craniates, including (...) (5) cranial nerves (...) (reference 1); Phylogenetically, the cranial nerves are thought to have evolved from dorsal and ventral nerves of a few anterior spinal nerves that became incorporated into the braincase. Dorsal and ventral nerves fuse in the trunk but not in the head, and they produce two series: dorsal cranial nerves (V, VII, IX, and X) and ventral cranial nerves (III, IV, VI, and XIII) (reference 2).[well established][VHOG]
Term relations
- structure with developmental contribution from neural crest
- cranial nerve
- nerve
- part of some gustatory system
- has developmental contribution from some pharyngeal arch 2
- innervates some facial muscle
- has developmental contribution from some basal plate metencephalon
- extends_fibers_into some facial nucleus
- has developmental contribution from some neural crest
- levator auris longus muscle
- transversus menti muscle
- depressor septi nasi
- procerus
- depressor supercilii
- levator labii superioris alaeque nasi
- zygomaticus major muscle
- zygomaticus minor muscle
- levator anguli oris
- mentalis muscle
- depressor anguli oris muscle
- risorius muscle
- stylohyoid muscle
- zygomaticus muscle
- occipitofrontalis muscle
- orbicularis oris muscle
- digastric muscle group
- facial muscle
- orbicularis oculi muscle
- levator labii superioris
- depressor labii inferioris
- buccinator muscle
- stapedius muscle
- depressor mandibulae muscle
- levator operculi
- epihyoidean
- levator hyomandibulae muscle