Atlas of Human Anatomy by Netter

[Plate 130, Autonomic Nerves in Head]

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Cranial Nerve Functional Component Cranial Opening

I Olfactory nerve SVA (special sense of smell) Foramina in cribriform plate

II Optic nerve SSA (special sense of sight) Optic canal

III Oculomotor
nerve

GSE (motor to extraocular muscles)

GVE (parasympathetic to smooth muscle in eye)

Superior orbital fissure

IV Trochlear nerveGSE (motor to 1 extraocular muscle) Superior orbital fissure

V Trigeminal nerveGSA (sensory to face, orbit, nose, anterior
tongue)
SVE (motor to skeletal muscles)

three branches: ophthalmic, maxillary, and mandibular travel

through multiple openings

VI Abducens nerveGSE (motor to 1 extraocular muscle) Superior orbital fissure

VII Facial nerve GSA (sensory to skin of ear)
SVA (special sense of taste to anterior tongue)
GVE (motor to glands-salivary, nasal, lacrimal)
SVE (motor to facial muscles)

Internal acoustic meatus Facial canal Stylomastoid foramen

VIII

Vestibulocochlear
nerve

SSA (special sense of hearing and balance) Internal acoustic meatus

IX

Glossopharyngeal
nerve

GSA (sensory to posterior tongue)

SVA (special sense of taste-posterior tongue)

GVA (sensory from middle ear, pharynx, carotid

body, and sinus)

GVE (motor to parotid gland)

SVE (motor to 1 muscle of pharynx)

Jugular foramen

X Vagus nerve GSA (sensory external ear)
SVA (special sense of taste-epiglottis)
GVA (sensory from pharynx, larynx, and thoracic
and abdominal organs)
GVE (motor to thoracic and abdominal organs)
SVE (motor to muscles of pharynx/larynx)

Jugular foramen