| seventh cranial nerve | <anatomy, nerve> The facial nerve enervates the muscles of the face (facial expression). Lesion of the facial nerve cause a drooping to one side of the face, inability to wrinkle the forehead, inability to whistle, inability to close the eye and deviation of the mouth to the unaffected side. Synonym: cranial nerve VII. (27 Sep 1997) |
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| seventh sense | The perception of the existence of the internal organs. Synonym: seventh sense, splanchnesthesia, splanchnesthetic sensibility. (05 Mar 2000) |