facial nerve

Questions about facial nerve

What is another word for facial nerve?

It depends which facial nerve you mean. In the sense “cranial nerve that supplies facial muscles”, the synonyms are facial, nervus facialis, seventh cranial nerve. Across all 1 sense there are 3 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of facial nerve?

WordNet records no antonym for facial nerve. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for facial nerve come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of facial nerve

• Full entry for facial nerveAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for facial nerveWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.