Definitions for trigeminal

trigeminal tri·gem·i·nal

Spelling: [trahy-jem-uh-nl]
IPA: /traɪˈdʒɛm ə nl/

Trigeminal is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 867 anagrams from letters in trigeminal (aegiilmnrt).

Definitions for trigeminal

adjective

  1. of or relating to the trigeminal nerve.

noun

  1. Also called trigeminal nerve. either one of the fifth pair of cranial nerves, consisting of motor fibers that innervate the muscles of mastication, and of sensory fibers that conduct impulses from the head and face to the brain.

Origin of trigeminal

1820-30; New Latin trigemin(us) (Latin: triple, equivalent to tri- tri- + geminus twin, double) + -al1

Examples for trigeminal

There is severe pain referred to the distribution of the maxillary division of the trigeminal nerve.

All the muscles belonging to this oral chamber are of the visceral type, and are innervated by the trigeminal nerve.

Foramina by which the optic, trigeminal and abortio dura, and abducens nerves leave the skull.

The epimeral purely sensory nerves to the somatic surface, equivalent in the vertebrate to the ascending root of the trigeminal.

Anteriorly it is pierced by a pair of small foramina through which the ophthalmic branches of the trigeminal nerve pass out.

Between the trigeminal and optic foramina are the very small foramina for the sixth nerves (fig. 25, B, VI).

The anterior margin of the origin is at the point where the mandibular ramus of the trigeminal nerve enters the mandible.

The facial and acoustic nerves and the maxillary and mandibular divisions of the trigeminal are frequently implicated.

These perforate the palatine and transmit branches of the trigeminal nerve and certain blood-vessels.

The father is neurasthenic, and the grandfather has trigeminal neuralgia.

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