Cranial nerves,functions and their exit routes from skull
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on December 17, 2010
Interesting facts regarding cranial nerves.
- Olfactory nerve is the only sensory cranial nerve that projects directly to the cerebral cortex.
- Optic nerve terminates in thalamus
- Vagus nerve is the only cranial nerve which supplies in areas other than head and neck.
- Trochlear nerve is the only cranial nerve to emerge from dorsal surface of brain stem.
- Trochlear nerve is smallest in terms of number of axons it carries.
- Trochlear nerve supplies only one muscle – Superior Oblique.
- Trochlear nerve has the longest intracranial course.
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