Principal sensory nucleus of trigeminal nerve

Principal sensory nucleus of trigeminal nerve

The cranial nerve nuclei schematically represented; dorsal view. Motor nuclei in red; sensory in blue. (Trigeminal nerve nuclei are at "V".)
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Identifiers
Latin nucleus principalis nervi trigemini
MeSH A08.186.211.132.931
NeuroNames hier-552
Dorlands
/Elsevier
n_11/12582704
TA A14.1.05.406
FMA 54533

Anatomical terms of neuroanatomy

The principal sensory nucleus (or chief sensory nucleus of V) is a group of second order neurons which have cell bodies in the caudal pons.

It receives information about discriminative sensation and light touch of the face as well as conscious proprioception of the jaw via first order neurons of CN V.

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