The facial nerve is the seventh cranial nerve, or simply cranial nerve VII.

The trochlear nerve (the fourth cranial nerve) is a motor nerve (a somatic efferent nerve) that innervates a single muscle the superior oblique muscle of the eye.

The vestibulocochlear nerve (auditory vestibular nerve), known as the eighth cranial nerve, transmits sound and equilibrium (balance) information from the inner ear to the brain.

The sixth nerve, the abducens nerve, which innervates the lateral rectus muscle of the eye (moves the eye laterally), is also commonly affected but fourth nerve, the trochlear nerve, (innervates the superior oblique muscle, which moves the eye downward) involvement is unusual.

Results may indicate lesion to the spinal cord nerve root, or intervertebral disc herniation pressing on the spinal nerve roots.

But Estonia kept its nerve.

Many former Soviet Republics with EU aspirations have become victims of this loss of nerve, as have the Western Balkan countries.

It was a nerve wracking experience.

Gazans have the nerve to bust out of the cage that Egypt and Israel keep them locked up in.

And yes, it's a little nerve wracking.

The International Foundation for Optic Nerve Diseases (IFOND) sponsors research and information on a variety of optic nerve disorders and may provide general direction.

Nerve growth factor (NGF) is a small secreted protein that is important for the growth, maintenance, and survival of certain target neurons (nerve cells).

The sheer unseemliness of what is happening raises blood pressure as well as eyebrows. How do they have the nerve?

It takes nerve and energy to live like that.

Once within a muscle or nerve cell, the virus undergoes replication.

Compared to the body of an oyster, for example, chimpanzees and humans are at least 99 identical bone for bone, muscle for muscle, nerve for nerve, organ for organ.

Distal axonopathy occurs most severely in the longest nerve in the horse.

It can also cause nerve damage, eventually leading to paralysis.

The tumor cells always stay on the outside of the nerve, but the tumor itself may either push the nerve aside and or up against a bony structure (thereby possibly causing damage).

The silence of Arab governments in particular is hitting a raw nerve.

This condition leads to brain inflammation and the death of nerve cells.

The strangest thing about the Duma election was that Putin lost his nerve.

Fortunately, Gandhi held her nerve and began to prepare for war.

In 2008, Mexico s government decided to attack the drug cartels operational nerve centers.

We have been able to see nerves for facial expression, for facial movement, for breathing every single nerve nerves for urinary function around the prostate.

Epidermal nerve fiber density testing (ENFD) is a more recently developed neuropathology test in which a punch skin biopsy is taken to identify small fiber neuropathies by analyzing the nerve fibers of the skin.

But, had the army held its nerve and triggers there is every reason to believe that Morsi would have been voted out in the next election.

After all, Egypt is the heart, brain, and nerve center of the Arab world.

Many nerve, respiratory and muscle diseases might also be caused by prions.

How i hate that day! its nerve wrecking if u ask me.

Treatments included peripheral nerve stimulation, electrical muscle stimulation and electric shock therapy.

It may refer to the coupling of adjacent (touching) nerve fibers caused by the exchange of ions between the cells, or it may refer to coupling of nerve fibers as a result of local electric fields.

By calling for the destruction of the Zionist entity, Iran s president rubs that raw nerve.

Hundreds of people were discovered to have levels greater than 50 ppm of mercury in their hair, the level at which people are likely to experience nerve damage.

The government then turned to force, deploying thugs, live bullets, and possibly nerve gas to bring an end to a series of mass protests that have swept the country.

In pathology, perineural invasion, abbreviated PNI, refers to cancer spreading to the space surrounding a nerve.

They recognized these symptoms were the result of inflammation of the optic nerve and spinal cord, respectively.

It shows how vulnerable a modern city can be when its leaders lose their nerve.

The third and fourth lumbricals (most ulnar two) are innervated by the deep branch of the ulnar nerve.

They are sensitive to the touch as they have many nerve endings and it is common to press or massage them with hands or orally before or during sexual activity.

The syndrome may be due to anatomical variations in the muscle nerve relationship, or from overuse or strain.

The radial nerve is vulnerable as it passes through this space, for all of the reasons mentioned above.

That takes a little bit of nerve, and, darn it, once in a while you fail.

Violent Palestinians, for their part, propagandize that Israel will lose its nerve in the face of another terrorist attack.

For example, fractures of the petrous temporal bone can selectively damage the nerve, as can aneurysms of the intracavernous carotid artery.