Tags: Anatomical Structure, Nerve.

The facial nerve is the seventh cranial nerve or simply cranial nerve VII. It emerges from the brainstem between the pons and the medulla and controls the muscles of facial expression and functions in the conveyance of taste sensations from the anterior two-thirds of the tongue and oral cavity. It also supplies preganglionic parasympathetic fibers to several head and neck ganglia.

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