• (nerve, facial) A cranial nerve extending from the brain stem between the pons and medulla, which innervates the facial muscles, glands and the tongue.
  CDISC Terminology
  Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC), 2021
• Cranial nerve VII, which originates in the brainstem between the pons and the medulla. It controls the facial expression muscles and transports taste and sensation from the tongue and mouth.
  NCI
  U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
• Seventh cranial nerve; has two parts, the larger motor root which may be called the facial nerve proper, and the smaller intermediate or sensory root, which together provide efferent innervation to the muscles of facial expression and to the lacrimal and salivary glands, and convey afferent information for taste from the anterior two-thirds of the tongue and for touch from the external ear.
  CRISP Thesaurus
  National Institutes of Health, 2006
• The 7th cranial nerve. The facial nerve has two parts, the larger motor root which may be called the facial nerve proper, and the smaller intermediate or sensory root. Together they provide efferent innervation to the muscles of facial expression and to the lacrimal and SALIVARY GLANDS, and convey afferent information for TASTE from the anterior two-thirds of the TONGUE and for TOUCH from the EXTERNAL EAR.
  NLM Medical Subject Headings
  U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2025
• The facial nerve, or cranial nerve (CN) VII, is the nerve of facial expression. The pathways of the facial nerve are variable, and knowledge of the key intratemporal and extratemporal landmarks is essential for accurate physical diagnosis and safe and effective surgical intervention in the head and neck.
  Medscape
  WebMD, 2025
• Facial nerve, nerve that originates in the area of the brain called the pons and that has three types of nerve fibres: (1) motor fibres to the superficial muscles of the face, neck, and scalp and to certain deep muscles, known collectively as the muscles of facial expression; (2) sensory fibres, c...
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