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facial nerve

facial nerve noun: the seventh (VII) of twelve paired cranial nerves that supply motor fibers especially to the muscles of the face and jaw and sensory and parasympathetic fibers to the tongue, palate, and fauces.

Noun

facial nerve (plural facial nerves)

  1. The seventh (VII) of twelve paired cranial nerves that supply motor fibers especially to the muscles of the face and jaw and sensory and parasympathetic fibers to the tongue, palate, and fauces.

facial nerve meaning in Tamil and Telugu

facial nerve in Tamil

முகப்பகுதி இயக்க மூளை நரம்பு, முக நரம்பு, முகநரம்பு

facial nerve in Telugu

nerve
ముఖనాడి mukhanāḍi

Forms of facial nerve

pluralfacial nerves

Questions about facial nerve

What does facial nerve mean?
Facial nerve means the seventh (VII) of twelve paired cranial nerves that supply motor fibers especially to the muscles of the face and jaw and sensory and parasympathetic fibers to the tongue, palate, and fauces.
What is facial nerve in Tamil?
Facial nerve in Tamil is முகப்பகுதி இயக்க மூளை நரம்பு, முக நரம்பு, முகநரம்பு. See Facial nerve meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is facial nerve?
Facial nerve is a noun.
What is the plural of facial nerve?
The plural of facial nerve is facial nerves.

Words near facial nerve in the dictionary

  1. facial features
  2. facial hair
  3. facial hairs
  4. facial mask
  5. facial masks
  6. facial nerve
  7. facial nerves
  8. facial profiling
  9. facial pubes
  10. facial soap
  11. facial tissue

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Adapted from Wiktionary: facial nerve (page history and authors); facial nerve (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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