Naming the Cranial Nerves: a historical note
This summary relates the history of the Galenic system of ordinal numbering and the later naming of the cranial nerves. It emphasises the original classification by Samuel Thomas Soemmerring’s naming of 12 pairs, now universally accepted.
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Whitehouse Publishing
2017-09-01
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| Series: | Advances in Clinical Neuroscience & Rehabilitation |
| Online Access: | https://acnr.co.uk/articles/cranial-nerves/ |