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Facial Nerve

"Facial Nerve" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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The 7th cranial nerve. The facial nerve has two parts, the larger motor root which may be called the facial nerve proper, and the smaller intermediate or sensory root. Together they provide efferent innervation to the muscles of facial expression and to the lacrimal and salivary glands, and convey afferent information for taste from the anterior two-thirds of the tongue and for touch from the external ear.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Facial Nerve" by people in UAMS Profiles by year, and whether "Facial Nerve" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 17 publications over 10 distinct years, with a maximum of 4 publications in 2021
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