Trigeminal

[trai'dʒeminl]

Definition

(noun.) the main sensory nerve of the face and motor nerve for the muscles of mastication.

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Definition

(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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Definition

adj. triple threefold.—adj. Trigem′inous born three at a birth.—n. Trigemi′nus the trifacial nerve.

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