Crossword clues for trigeminal
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Trigeminal \Tri*gem"i*nal\, a. [See Trigeminous.] (Anat.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, the fifth pair of cranial nerves, which divide on each side of the head into three main branches distributed to the orbits, jaws, and parts of the mouth; trifacial.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. (context anatomy English) Of or pertaining to the trigeminal nerve (the fifth cranial nerve).
WordNet
n. the main sensory nerve of the face and motor nerve for the muscles of mastication [syn: trigeminal nerve, trigeminus, nervus trigeminus, fifth cranial nerve]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "trigeminal".
The twelve cranial nerves, the facial nerves optic, trigeminal, glossopharyngeal .
His most troublesome illness was trigeminal neuralgia, sometimes called tic douloureux, a disorder of the fifth cranial nerve.
Shingles can lead to postherpetic neuralgia, a nasty and painful reaction, and when PHN attacks the trigeminal nerve, the resulting agonies can be excruciating, and those suffering from it often commit suicide.
To bring subjects out of Levantman shock, you let them have a squirt of simple saline in the trigeminal nerve.
The side of my face felt as though it were on fire, and jolts of pain shot through the trigeminal nerve with each heartbeat, making the muscles twitch and the eye water terribly.
These fibers pass to the brain as parts of two pairs of nerves--those from the front of the tongue joining the trigeminal nerve, and those from the back of the tongue, the glossopharyngeal nerve.
He waited a heartbeat, then touched the dagger to her trigeminal nerve.
He was in the process of developing a new technique for the treatment of trigeminal neuralgia, an inflammation of the facial sensory nerve.
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The three million candles of energy turned the entire world into the face of the sun, and then the energy overload invaded the man's central nervous system along the trigeminal nerve, which runs from the back of the eye along the base of the brain, branching out through the neural network that controls the voluntary muscles.
The bloodless lips descended on mine again, and again her needle ran into my jaw, probing exactly for the great lump of the trigeminal facial nerve, and finding it.
The painful muscular spasms associated with trigeminal neuralgia are sometimes referred to as tic douloureux (tik doo-loo-ruh'.
The potter found the apex of the trigeminal nerve with his needle's point and gave him 60 cc.
She smiled as she set the knifepoint against the side of his face, just over the trigeminal nerve, barely breaking the skin.
His teeth ground against one another, sending sheets of pain through his trigeminal nerve.