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Cranial nerves
Week Week 5
Traffic Light System Intermediate
Lecturer Dr Ian Jenkins Deputy Director of Anatomy
Learning Objectives
Name the 12 cranial nerves
Cranial nerve arrangement and base of the brain. Distribution and function of each cranial
nerve + clinical scenarios.
Describe how cranial nerves III, IV and VI move the eyeball
Describe the course and exit foramina of the cranial nerves from the skull vault especially
cranial nerves V, VII, IX, X, and XII
Describe the main peripheral targets in the head innervated by cranial nerves V, VII, IX, X
and XII
Cranial nerves 1
, Summary of Cranial Nerves
Cranial nerves 2
, NAMES MNEMONIC
ON OLD OLYMPUS, TOWERING TOP, A
FINN VAN GERMAN, VEIWED A HOP
FUNCTIONS MNEMONIC
SOME SAY MARRY MONEY, BUT MY
BROTHER SAYS BIG BRAINS MATTER
MORE
Sensory - olfactory
CRANIAL NERVES PATHWAYS
MNEMONIC Sensory - optic
Cool Owls Soar Swiftly South, Really Over Motor - oculomotor
Sunny Islands, Just Jumping Happily.
Motor - trochlear
Cool - Cribriform plate (1)
Both - trigeminal
Owls - Optic canal (2)
Motor - abducens
Soar - Superior orbital fissure (3)
Both - facial nerve
Swiftly - Superior orbital fissure (4)
Sensory - vestibulocochlear
South - Superior orbital fissure (5)
Both - glossopharyngeal
Really - Foramen rotundum (5)
Both - vagus
Over - Foramen ovule (5)
Motor - accessory
Sunny - Superior orbital fissure (6)
Motor - hypoglossal
Islands - Internal acoustic meatus (7,8)
ORIGINS OF CRANIAL NERVES
Just - Jugular foramen (9) MNEMONIC
Cranial nerves 3
Cranial nerves
Week Week 5
Traffic Light System Intermediate
Lecturer Dr Ian Jenkins Deputy Director of Anatomy
Learning Objectives
Name the 12 cranial nerves
Cranial nerve arrangement and base of the brain. Distribution and function of each cranial
nerve + clinical scenarios.
Describe how cranial nerves III, IV and VI move the eyeball
Describe the course and exit foramina of the cranial nerves from the skull vault especially
cranial nerves V, VII, IX, X, and XII
Describe the main peripheral targets in the head innervated by cranial nerves V, VII, IX, X
and XII
Cranial nerves 1
, Summary of Cranial Nerves
Cranial nerves 2
, NAMES MNEMONIC
ON OLD OLYMPUS, TOWERING TOP, A
FINN VAN GERMAN, VEIWED A HOP
FUNCTIONS MNEMONIC
SOME SAY MARRY MONEY, BUT MY
BROTHER SAYS BIG BRAINS MATTER
MORE
Sensory - olfactory
CRANIAL NERVES PATHWAYS
MNEMONIC Sensory - optic
Cool Owls Soar Swiftly South, Really Over Motor - oculomotor
Sunny Islands, Just Jumping Happily.
Motor - trochlear
Cool - Cribriform plate (1)
Both - trigeminal
Owls - Optic canal (2)
Motor - abducens
Soar - Superior orbital fissure (3)
Both - facial nerve
Swiftly - Superior orbital fissure (4)
Sensory - vestibulocochlear
South - Superior orbital fissure (5)
Both - glossopharyngeal
Really - Foramen rotundum (5)
Both - vagus
Over - Foramen ovule (5)
Motor - accessory
Sunny - Superior orbital fissure (6)
Motor - hypoglossal
Islands - Internal acoustic meatus (7,8)
ORIGINS OF CRANIAL NERVES
Just - Jugular foramen (9) MNEMONIC
Cranial nerves 3
