Cranial nerves

... the gut into its own nervous system. It really is just filled full of nerves and ganglia that help to regulate the huge amount of business down ... a nerve making a jump to either the spinal cord via a synapse or to a cranial nerve through a synapse as well. Both occur! The receiving of information ...

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... is another example of Rube Goldburg type design. The nerve starts as a cranial nerve , XI ? I don't recall exactly. Anyway it starts at he base ... ends up at he larnyx. This path makes it one of the longest periferal nerves in the body. Unfortunately periferal nerves have to get all their ...

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... are carried through the 9th(glossopharangeal) and 10th ( vagus ) cranial nerves which are called the buffer nerves .. the significance is to maintain normal value of ...

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... only that, the movement of the eyes is actually controlled by different cranial nerves (III, VI, IV), so if your eyes won't turn in a certain direction, will be indicative ...

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... vagus nerve has the most extensive distribution in the body of all the cranial nerves, innervating structures as diverse as the external surface of the eardrum and internal ...

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