trigeminal

Questions about trigeminal

What does trigeminal mean?

trigeminal means "the main sensory nerve of the face and motor nerve for the muscles of mastication".

How many syllables are in trigeminal?

trigeminal has 4 syllables: tri-ge-mi-nal. The stress falls on "ge".

What is another word for trigeminal?

Close synonyms include trigeminal nerve, trigeminus, nervus trigeminus, fifth cranial nerve. 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 trigeminal a common word?

trigeminal 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.