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facial: cranial nerve that supplies facial muscles
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Nerve that supplies sensory and parasympathetic fibers to the tongue, palate, and the narrow passage from the mouth, and motor fibers to the muscles of the face and jaw.
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Cranial nerve VII. In fishes, this is the motor nerve associated with the hyoid gill arch. In tetrapods, it became associated with neck musculature. In mammaliforms it becomes the principal motor nerve controlling the facial muscles. Like the trigeminal (Vth) nerve, with which it closely associated, the facial nerve has several branches which may exit the brain separately. The principal branches are the superficial opthalmic, buccal, palatine & hyomandibular. ...
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The seventh cranial nerve; cranial nerve VII is responsible for facial movement and expression and taste at the front of the tongue.
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