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.

Fiber tracts of the mammalian central nervous system (as opposed to the peripheral nervous system) are incapable of regeneration, and, hence, optic nerve damage produces irreversible blindness.

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.

But Estonia kept its nerve.

In fact, these adrenal medullary cells are modified postganglionic neurons, and preganglionic autonomic nerve fibers lead to them directly from the central nervous system.

It was a nerve wracking experience.

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

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).

It takes nerve and energy to live like that.

This creates a constraint on the evolution of the visual system such that the optic nerve is forced to exit the retina through a point called the optic disc.

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

The nervous system consists of a ventral nerve cord that runs the length of the body, with several ganglia and branches along the way reaching into the extremities of the appendages.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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).

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

The larvae are then transported via the blood to the central nervous system (CNS), where they are the most common cause of eosinophilic meningitis, a serious condition that can lead to death or permanent brain and nerve damage.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

These next cells are nerve cells, and right now, as we see and understand what we're looking at, our brains and our nerve cells are actually doing this right now. They're not just static. They're moving around making new connections, and that's what happens when we learn.

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

Smile surgery or smile reconstruction is a surgical procedure that may restore the smile for people with facial nerve paralysis.