Principal sensory nucleus of trigeminal nerve

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Principal sensory nucleus of trigeminal nerve
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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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Latin nucleus principalis nervi trigemini
Identifiers
MeSH A08.186.211.132.931
NeuroNames hier-552
Dorlands
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Anatomical terms of neuroanatomy
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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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