Physical Assessment/ Cranial Nerves Ch 11 Smith

Front 1

Function: What sensory nerve
Testing cranial nerves:
Recognizes odor in each nostril separately?

Back 1

I Olfactory

Front 2

Function: What sensory nerve; conducts sensory information from the retina?
Testing cranial nerves: Demonstrates visual acuity ; can read newsprint.

Back 2

II Optic nerve

Front 3

Function: What motor nerve; controls four of the six extraocular muscles; raises eyelid and controls the constrictor pupillae and ciliary muscle of the eyeball?
Testing cranial nerves:
Responds to light; pupils constrict; moves eyes medially; elevates upper eyelid

Back 3

III Oculomotor

Front 4

Function: What motor nerve:
controls the superior oblique eye muscle.
Testing cranial nerves-moves the right up then down, and to the left

Back 4

IV Trochlear

Front 5

Function: What mixed nerve with three sensory branches and one motor branch: the ophthalmic branch supplies the corneal reflex?
Testing cranial nerves:
Demonstrates normal facial sensation; clenches teeth with no lateral jaw deviation; blinks as wisp touched to cornea

Back 5

V Trigeminal

Front 6

Function:
What motor nerve controls the lateral rectus muscle of the eye?
Testing Cranial Nerves:
Moves eyes laterally

Back 6

VI Abducens nerve

Front 7

Function:
What mixed nerve is anterior tongue receives sensory supply, motor supply to glands of nose, palate lacrimal submaxillary, and sublingual; motor branch supplies hyoid elevators and muscles of expression and closes eyelid?
Test Cranial Nerve:
Elevates eyebrows; puffs cheeks; recognizes tastes (sugar salt)

Back 7

VII Facial nerve

Front 8

Function:
What sensory nerve has two divisions: hearing and semicircular canals?
Testing Cranial Nerves:
Hears whisper with each ear separately

Back 8

VIII Acoustic nerve

Front 9

Function: What mixed nerve innervate the parotid gland; sensory innervate auditory tube and posterior portion of taste buds?
Testing Cranial Nerve:
Demonstrates gag reflex to tongue blade when touched to back of tongue.

Back 9

IX Glossopharyngeal nerve

Front 10

Function: What mixed nerve; motor branches to the pharyngeal and laryngeal muscles and to the viscera of the throax and abdomen; sensory portion supplies the pinna of the ear, thoraciic and abdominal viscera?
Testing cranial nerve:
Same as IX

Back 10

X Vagus

Front 11

Function:
What motor nerve innervates the sternocleidomastoid and trapezius muscles?
Testing Cranial Nerves:
Shrugs shoulders.

Back 11

XI Accessory nerve

Front 12

Function:
what motor nerve controls the toungue muscles?
Testing Cranial Nerves:
Sticks tongue out in midline without deviation.

Back 12

XII Hypoglossal nerve