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Descriptor English: Trigeminal Nerve
Descriptor Spanish: Nervio Trigémino
Descriptor nervio trigémino
Entry term(s) V nervio craneal
V par craneal
quinto nervio craneal
Scope note: Quinto par craneal y el mayor de los mismos. El nervio trigémino es un nervio mixto, motor y sensitivo. La porción sensitiva, la más grande, forma los nervios oftálmico, mandibular y maxilar los cuales transportan las aferencias sensitivas de los estímulos internos o externos procedentes de la piel, los músculos y las articulaciones de la cara, la boca y los dientes. La mayoría de estas fibras se originan a partir de las células del GANGLIO DEL TRIGÉMINO (ganglio de Gasser) y se proyectan hacia los NÚCLEOS DEL TRIGÉMINO del tronco encefálico. La parte motora, más pequeña, se origina en el núcleo motor del nervio trigémino, en el tronco encefálico, e inerva los músculos de la masticación.
Descriptor Portuguese: Nervo Trigêmeo
Descriptor French: Nerf trijumeau
Entry term(s): Cranial Nerve V
Cranial Nerve, Fifth
Fifth Cranial Nerve
Fifth Cranial Nerves
Nerve V
Nerve V, Cranial
Nerve Vs
Nerve, Fifth Cranial
Nerve, Trigeminal
Nerves, Fifth Cranial
Nervus Trigeminus
Trigeminal Nerves
Trigeminus, Nervus
Tree number(s): A08.800.800.120.760
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014276
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.
Annotation: neoplasm = TRIGEMINAL NERVE DISEASES (IM) + CRANIAL NERVE NEOPLASMS (IM) + histological type of neoplasm (IM)
Allowable Qualifiers: AB abnormalities
AH anatomy & histology
BS blood supply
CH chemistry
CY cytology
DE drug effects
DG diagnostic imaging
EM embryology
EN enzymology
GD growth & development
IM immunology
ME metabolism
MI microbiology
PA pathology
PH physiology
PP physiopathology
PS parasitology
RE radiation effects
SU surgery
TR transplantation
UL ultrastructure
VI virology
Entry Combination: injuries:Trigeminal Nerve Injuries
Related: Pontine Tegmentum MeSH
Trigeminal Neuralgia MeSH
DeCS ID: 14675
Unique ID: D014276
NLM Classification: WL 330
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1966/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2016/06/28
Trigeminal Nerve - Preferred
Concept UI M0021965
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.
Preferred term Trigeminal Nerve
Entry term(s) Cranial Nerve V
Cranial Nerve, Fifth
Fifth Cranial Nerve
Fifth Cranial Nerves
Nerve V
Nerve V, Cranial
Nerve Vs
Nerve, Fifth Cranial
Nerve, Trigeminal
Nerves, Fifth Cranial
Nervus Trigeminus
Trigeminal Nerves
Trigeminus, Nervus



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