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facial nerves

facial nerves is the plural of facial nerve.

Meaning of facial nerve

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.

Questions about facial nerves

What is facial nerves the plural of?
Facial nerves is the plural of facial nerve.

Words near facial nerves in the dictionary

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

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