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n. - The main sensory nerve of the face and motor nerve for the muscles of mastication.

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  • It's called the trigeminal nerve, and that's the fifth nerve.
  • The Thorn Birds, is to undergo brain surgery for a condition known as trigeminal ...
  • The fifth cranial nerve, called the trigeminal nerve, is apparently responsible for sneezes.
  • What we think now is that the migraine discharges irritate and cause firing in a nerve called the trigeminal nerve.
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