Preferred Label : facial nerve;
Uberon definition : Cranial nerve that branches into the supraorbital (supplying the skin of the eye region
and the lateral line organs here), the palatine (to the roof of the buccal cavity),
and the hyomandibular (dividing into the jugular and mental branches).;
Uberon synonym : nerve of face; facial VII; facial nerve [VII]; face nerve; facial VII nerve; facial nerve tree; nervus facialis; branchiomeric cranial nerve; seventh cranial nerve;
Uberon related term : CN-VII; cranial nerve VII; facial nerve/root; facial nerve or its root; nerve VII;
Uberon broad term : 7n;
Uberon Homology note : We conclude this section by listing some of the many synapomorphies of craniates,
including (...) (5) cranial nerves (...) (reference 1); Phylogenetically, the cranial
nerves are thought to have evolved from dorsal and ventral nerves of a few anterior
spinal nerves that became incorporated into the braincase. Dorsal and ventral nerves
fuse in the trunk but not in the head, and they produce two series: dorsal cranial
nerves (V, VII, IX, and X) and ventral cranial nerves (III, IV, VI, and XIII) (reference
2).[well established][VHOG];
Origin ID : 0001647;
UMLS CUI : C0015462;
Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- Semantic type(s)
- UMLS correspondences (same concept)
- Uberon cross reference
- has branching part
- has developmental contribution from
- has part
- innervated by
- innervates
- part of
Cranial nerve that branches into the supraorbital (supplying the skin of the eye region
and the lateral line organs here), the palatine (to the roof of the buccal cavity),
and the hyomandibular (dividing into the jugular and mental branches).
