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I.olfactory |
carries affrent impuse associated with sense of smell |
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II.optic |
carries affrent impulses associated with vision. |
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III.oculomotor |
controlling lens shape (reflex responses to varying light intensity and focusing of eye for near vision) |
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IV.Trochlear |
provides somatic motor muscles to superior musclue( it's an eye muscle) |
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V.Trigeminal |
major sensory nerve of face (conducts sensory impulses from skin of face and anterior scalp)also contains motor fibers that innervate muscles of mastication and muscles of the floor of mouth. |
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VI.Abducens |
carries motor fibers to lateral rectus muscle of eye. |
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VII.Facial |
supplies somatic motor fibers to muscles of facial expression and parasympatic motor fibers to lacrimal and salivary glands. |
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VIII.Vestibulocochlear |
transmits impulses of sense of equilibrum from vestibular apparatus.cochlear branch transmits impulses associated with hearing from cochlea. |
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IX.Glossopharyngeal |
somatic motor fibers serve pharyngeal muscles,and parasymphatic motor fibers serve salivery glands. |
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X.Vagus |
carry somatic impulses to pharynx and larynx.parasympathetic motor fibers supply heart and smooth mucles of abdominal visceral organs. |
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XI.Accessory |
provides somatic motor fibers to sternocleidomastoid and trapezius muscles and to muscles of spinal and medullary fibers. |
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XII.Hypoglossal |
carrries somatic motor fibers to muscles of tongue. |





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