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• n  the main sensory nerve of the face and motor nerve for the muscles of mastication

• Diseased teeth, sinuses, nose or throat may affect the trigeminus, arouse a prolonged fit of sneezing.
• His hosts say that the Soviet leader was suffering from a recurring affliction of the trigeminus, the nerve controlling the lower jaw.

• trigeminal
• trigeminal nerve
• nervus trigeminus
• fifth cranial nerve