MEDIVEERSETHE PRACTICAL HUBHead & Neck
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Skull, deep spaces, glands, pharynx, ear, nerves and vessels.
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Olfactory nerve (I)
Special sensory smell; numerous filaments pass through the cribriform plate.
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Carries vision and the afferent limb of the pupillary light reflex.
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Supplies most extraocular muscles, levator palpebrae and preganglionic parasympathetic fibres to the ciliary ganglion.
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Motor supply to superior oblique.
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Ophthalmic division (V1)
Sensory division supplying forehead, cornea and related upper facial regions.
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Sensory division for midface, upper teeth, palate and nasal regions.
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Mixed division supplying lower facial sensation and first-arch muscles.
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Motor supply to lateral rectus.
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Mixed nerve for facial expression, taste and parasympathetic pathways.
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Special sensory nerve for hearing and equilibrium.
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Mixed nerve with pharyngeal sensation, stylopharyngeus motor and parotid parasympathetic functions.
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Mixed nerve supplying the pharynx, larynx and thoracoabdominal viscera.
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Spinal accessory fibres supply sternocleidomastoid and trapezius.
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Motor nerve to intrinsic and most extrinsic tongue muscles.
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Carries general sensation from anterior two-thirds of tongue and receives chorda tympani fibres.
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Sensory supply to lower teeth, with a mylohyoid motor branch before canal entry.
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Sensory nerve that also conveys postganglionic parasympathetic fibres to parotid.
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Carries taste from anterior tongue and preganglionic parasympathetic fibres for submandibular/sublingual glands.
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Superior laryngeal nerve
Divides into sensory internal and mainly motor external branches.
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Supplies most intrinsic laryngeal muscles and sensation below vocal folds.
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Cervical motor loop supplying sternohyoid, sternothyroid and omohyoid.
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Supplies neck skin and muscles and contributes to the phrenic nerve.
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Sympathetic pathway for head and neck structures.
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Parasympathetic relay for parotid gland.
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Parasympathetic relay for lacrimal, nasal and palatal secretomotor pathways.
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Parasympathetic relay associated with the floor of mouth.
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