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What is cranial nerve?

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  • Vijay
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  • nerves which related to brain


  • Cranial nerves are the nerves that emerge directly from the brain (including the brainstem). They relay information between the brain and parts of the body, primarily to and from regions of the head and neck. The cranial nerves are considered as the components of the Peripheral Nervous System (PNS).


  • The nerves  arises from brain are called as cranial nerves.


  • each of twelve pairs of nerves which arise directly from the brain, not from the spinal cord, and pass through separate apertures in the skull


  • Cranial nerves arise from neurons inside cranium( skull) 12pairs


  • Vagus nerve


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