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Facial nerve Moderate

Facial nerve has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

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Noun
1

cranial nerve that supplies facial muscles

2

The seventh (VII) of twelve paired cranial nerves that supply motor fibers especially to the muscles of the face and jaw and sensory and parasympathetic fibers to the tongue, palate, and fauces.

Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
cranial nerve
Rhyming Words
verve terve curve lurve perve serve nerve merve kerve herve varve tarve larve harve carve surve swarve slurve sparve clerve
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