Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun fifth_cranial_nerve

1 sense of fifth cranial nerve

Sense 1
trigeminal, trigeminal nerve, trigeminus, nervus trigeminus, fifth cranial nerve -- (the main sensory nerve of the face and motor nerve for the muscles of mastication)
       => cranial nerve -- (any of the 12 paired nerves that originate in the brain stem)