Facial Nerve Nucleus

Preferred Label : Facial Nerve Nucleus;

NCIt synonyms : Facial Nucleus;

NCIt definition : A collection of cell bodies of cranial nerve VII found in the brainstem. There are three nuclei with distinct functions: the facial motor nucleus, which sends muscular efferent nerves to the muscles of facial expression and the stapedius; the superior salivary nucleus, which sends visceral parasympathetic efferent nerves mostly to the lacrimal and salivary glands; and the geniculate ganglion, which receives mostly afferent nerves for taste sensation.;

Détails

Origin ID

C12898;

UMLS CUI

C0228740;

Anatomic structure is physical part of
- Brain [NCIt concept]
- Facial Nerve [NCIt concept]
- Pons Varolii [NCIt concept]
Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- Facial Nucleus [MeSH Descriptor]
- Facial Nucleus [MeSH concept]
- Motor nucleus of facial nerve [FMA entity]
- Right facial nucleus [FMA entity]
- facial nucleus [UBERON concept]
- motor nucleus of facial nerve [Radlex concept]
- nucleus of facial nerve [Radlex concept]
- right facial nucleus [Radlex concept]
Currated CISMeF NLP mapping
- facial nerve nucleus [SNOMED Notion]
False automatic mappings
- Facial nucleus [FMA entity]
- Structure of facial nucleus (body structure) [SNOMED CT concept]
Semantic type(s)
- Body Part, Organ, or Organ Component [UMLS semantic type]
UMLS correspondences (same concept)
- Facial Nucleus [MeSH concept]
- Facial Nucleus [MeSH Descriptor]
- Facial nucleus [FMA entity]
- Motor nucleus of facial nerve [FMA entity]
- Structure of facial nucleus (body structure) [SNOMED CT concept]
- facial nerve nucleus [SNOMED Notion]
- facial nucleus [UBERON concept]

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