Table 11-6 Cranial Nerves Nerve I.

Olfactory Components Sensory Function Smell Opening in Skull Openings in cribriform plate of ethmoid Optic canal Superior orbital fissure

II. III.

Optic Oculomotor

Sensory Motor

IV. V.

Trochlear Trigeminal Ophthalmic division

Motor

Vision Lifts upper eyelid, turns eyeball upward, downward, and medially; constricts pupil; accommodates eye Assists in turning eyeball downward Superior orbital and laterally fissure Cornea, skin of forehead, scalp, Superior orbital eyelids, and nose; also mucous fissure membrane of paranasal sinuses and nasal cavity Skin of face over maxilla and the Foramen upper lip; teeth of upper jaw; mucousrotundum membrane of nose, the maxillary air sinus, and palate Muscles of mastication, mylohyoid, Foramen ovale anterior belly of digastric, tensor veli palatini, and tensor tympani Skin of cheek, skin over mandible, lower lip, and side of head; teeth of lower jaw and temporomandibular joint; mucous membrane of mouth and anterior two thirds of tongue Lateral rectus muscle: turns eyeball Superior orbital laterally fissure Muscles of face, cheek, and scalp; Internal acoustic stapedius muscle of middle ear; meatus, facial stylohyoid; and posterior belly of canal, digastric stylomastoid foramen Taste from anterior two thirds of tongue, floor of mouth, and palate Submandibular and sublingual salivary parasympathetic glands, lacrimal gland, and glands of nose and palate Position and movement of head Hearing Internal acoustic meatus

Sensory

Maxillary division

Sensory

Mandibular division

Motor

Sensory

VI.

Abducent

Motor Motor

VII. Facial

Sensory Secretomotor

VIII. Vestibulocochlear Vestibular Sensory Cochlear Sensory

IX.

Glossopharyngeal Motor

X.

Vagus

Secretomotor Jugular foramen parasympathetic Sensory General sensation and taste from posterior third of tongue and pharynx; carotid sinus and carotid body Motor Constrictor muscles of pharynx and Jugular foramen intrinsic muscles of larynx; involuntary muscle of trachea and bronchi, heart, alimentary tract from pharynx to splenic flexure of colon; liver and pancreas Sensory Taste from epiglottis and vallecula and afferent fibers from structures named above Motor Motor Motor Muscles of soft palate, pharynx, and Jugular foramen larynx Sternocleidomastoid and trapezius muscles Muscles of tongue controlling its Hypoglossal shape and movement (except canal palatoglossus)

Stylopharyngeus muscle: assists swallowing Parotid salivary gland

XI.

Accessory Cranial root Spinal root

XII. Hypoglossal