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

It was a nerve wracking experience.

And yes, it's a little nerve wracking.

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 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 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.

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?

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

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

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

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).

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

It takes nerve and energy to live like that.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

She didn't realize that she stepped on a sensitive nerve and aroused national questioning, almost a turmoil, against the credibility of Red Cross.

So each nerve cell with the right genetic makeup will spontaneously produce a receiver that allows us to control its function.

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

In troubled times, during the dictatorship of Mussolini, Rita had secretly studied nerve fibers in a makeshift lab hidden in her home.

All three laboratories reported the presence of a decontamination compound, and one laboratory identified a possible degradation product of a nerve agent, but not necessarily VX.

The terrorists attacked India s financial nerve center and commercial capital, a city emblematic of the country s energetic thrust into the twenty first century.

These photoreceptors developed and made the necessary neural connections to the animal's retinal nerve cells, a key step in the restoration of sight.

As Dag Hammarskjöld once said, the nerve signals from a wound in the world are felt at once through the body of mankind.

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.