Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Trigeminal.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to the face in a threefold manner: specifically applied to the fifth cranial nerve, or trigeminus, which divides into three main branches to supply the face and some other parts, and has the threefold function of a nerve of motion, of common sensation, and of special sense (gustatory).
- Of or pertaining to the trifacial nerve.
- noun The trigeminal nerve.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Anat.) See
trigeminal .
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- adjective
trigeminal
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Examples
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For further particulars on this interesting subject the reader is referred to Darwin's 'Variation of Animals and Plants,' i, p. 373, where numerous references are given, and wherein certain well-known and highly remarkable instances, such as the _Cytisus Adami_, the trifacial orange,
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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The _trifacial_, or fifth pair of nerves, divide each into three branches -- hence the name -- the first to the upper part of the face, eyes, and nose; the second to the upper jaw and teeth; the third to the lower jaw and the mouth, where it forms the nerve of taste.
Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics Joel Dorman Steele
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It was a matter of surprise, considering the frequency with which subsequent neuritis was met with in the nerves generally, that trifacial neuralgia in some form was not more often met with.
Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre George Henry Makins
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Mandibular division of trifacial nerve, seen from the middle line.
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The nerves of the _fifth_ pair are very large; they are each composed of two bundles of filaments, one motor and the other sensory, and have, besides, an additional resemblance to a spinal nerve by having a ganglion on each of their sensory roots, and, from the fact that they have three chief divisions, are often called the _trigeminal_, or _trifacial_, nerves.
The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand Ray Vaughn Pierce 1877
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782 Mandibular division of trifacial nerve, seen from the middle line.
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