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trigeminal nerve

n.

Either of the fifth pair of cranial nerves, having sensory and motor functions in the face, teeth, mouth, and nasal cavity. Also called trigeminus.

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trigeminal nerve

n

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Anatomy) either one of the fifth pair of cranial nerves, which supply the muscles of the mandible and maxilla. Their ophthalmic branches supply the area around the orbit of the eye, the nasal cavity, and the forehead

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trigeminal nerve  (tr-jm-nl)

Either of the fifth pair of cranial nerves, having sensory and motor functions in the face, teeth, mouth, and nasal cavity.

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trigeminal nerve - the main sensory nerve of the face and motor nerve for the muscles of mastication fifth cranial nerve, nervus trigeminus, trigeminal, trigeminus cranial nerve - any of the 12 paired nerves that originate in the brain stem