Crossword-Solution: TRIGEMINAL
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| Trigeminal | a. | Of, pertaining to, or designating, the fifth pair of cranial nerves, which divide on each side of the head into three main branches distributed to the orbits, jaws, and parts of the mouth; trifacial. |
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Hint 1 meaning
The likeness of a living being sculptured or modeled in
some solid substance, as marble, bronze, or wax; an image; as, a statue
of Hercules, or of a lion.
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The nerves of the _fifth_ pair are very large; they are each composed of two bundles of filaments, one motor and the other sensory, and have, besides, an additional resemblance to a spinal nerve by having a ganglion on each of their sensory roots, and, from the fact that they have three chief divisions, are often called the _trigeminal_, or _trifacial_, nerves.
The fifth pair (_trigeminal_ nerves; nerves of feeling to the face, of taste to the front of the tongue, and of control of muscles of mastication; afferent and efferent) connect with the skin of the face, the mucous membrane of the mouth, the teeth, and the muscles of mastication.
These fibers pass to the brain as parts of two pairs of nerves—those from the front of the tongue joining the trigeminal nerve, and those from the back of the tongue, the glossopharyngeal nerve.
The membranous or cartilaginous skull of these fishes shows a general resemblance in its main features to the ossified skull of other Vertebrates; the relations of the ear to the vagus and trigeminal nerves are, for instance, the same in both; the main regions of the cartilaginous skull can be homologised with definite bones or groups of bones in the bony skull; but discrepancies occur.
The fifth nerve, the trigeminal, is a much larger and more important one; it is a mixed nerve, having three main branches, of which the first two are chiefly sensory, the third almost entirely motor; it lies deeply in the orbit.