seventh cranial nerve

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   cranial nerve that supplies facial muscles

   Synonymsfacialfacial nervenervus facialis

   Broadercranial nerve

   Part offace

Questions about seventh cranial nerve

What does seventh cranial nerve mean?

seventh cranial nerve means "cranial nerve that supplies facial muscles".

What is another word for seventh cranial nerve?

Close synonyms include facial, facial nerve, nervus facialis. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is seventh cranial nerve a common word?

seventh cranial nerve is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.