Skip to main content

Medical Subject Headings

Search from vocabulary

Content language

Concept information

Nervous System > Peripheral Nervous System > Peripheral Nerves > Cranial Nerves > Trigeminal Nerve

Preferred term

Trigeminal Nerve  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Narrower concepts

Related concepts

Entry terms

  • Cranial Nerve, Fifth
  • Cranial Nerve V
  • Fifth Cranial Nerve
  • Fifth Cranial Nerves
  • Nerve, Fifth Cranial
  • Nerve V
  • Nerve V, Cranial
  • Nerve Vs
  • Nervus Trigeminus
  • Trigeminus, Nervus

Note

  • diseases = TRIGEMINAL NERVE DISEASES; neoplasms = TRIGEMINAL NERVE DISEASES + CRANIAL NERVE NEOPLASMS + histological type of neoplasm

Scope note

  • The 5th and largest cranial nerve. The trigeminal nerve is a mixed motor and sensory nerve. The larger sensory part forms the ophthalmic, mandibular, and maxillary nerves which carry afferents sensitive to external or internal stimuli from the skin, muscles, and joints of the face and mouth and from the teeth. Most of these fibers originate from cells of the TRIGEMINAL GANGLION and project to the TRIGEMINAL NUCLEUS of the brain stem. The smaller motor part arises from the brain stem trigeminal motor nucleus and innervates the muscles of mastication.

In other languages

  • kolmoishermo

    Finnish

  • 5. aivohermo
  • n. trigeminus
  • nervus trigeminus
  • trigeminus
  • V aivohermo
  • viides aivohermo
  • Trigeminusnerv

    Swedish

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D014276

Download this concept:

RDF/XML TURTLE JSON-LD Created 1/1/99, last modified 6/25/24