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Trigeminal

noun
1.
The main sensory nerve of the face and motor nerve for the muscles of mastication.  Synonyms: fifth cranial nerve, nervus trigeminus, trigeminal nerve, trigeminus.



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... all, at least in the sense in which the words have hitherto been used" (p. 571). The membranous or cartilaginous skull of these fishes shows a general resemblance in its main features to the ossified skull of other Vertebrates; the relations of the ear to the vagus and trigeminal nerves are, for instance, the same in both; the main regions of the cartilaginous skull can be homologised with definite bones or groups of bones in the bony skull; but discrepancies occur. It is again to development that we must turn ...
— Form and Function - A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology • E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell



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