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Trigeminus

noun
1.
The main sensory nerve of the face and motor nerve for the muscles of mastication.  Synonyms: fifth cranial nerve, nervus trigeminus, trigeminal, trigeminal nerve.






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"Trigeminus" Quotes from Famous Books



... many families of his acquaintance to keep it on hand as a domestic remedy. It is an excellent external application for stomach-ache, colic, tooth ache (whether nervous or arising from caries), neuralgia of the trigeminus, of the cervico-brachial plexus, etc. It is superior to anything else when inhaled in so-called angio-spastic hemicrania, giving rapid relief in the individual paroxysms and prolonging the intervals between the latter. No trial was made in cases of angio paralytic hemicrania, since in ...
— Scientific American Suppl. No. 299 • Various



Words linked to "Trigeminus" :   cranial nerve, nervus trigeminus, trigeminal nerve, trigeminal, fifth cranial nerve



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