Usually means: Nerves originating from the brain.
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We found 19 dictionaries that define the word cranial nerve:

General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. cranial nerve: Merriam-Webster
  2. cranial nerve: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cranial nerve: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cranial nerve: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cranial nerve: Vocabulary.com
  6. cranial nerve: Wiktionary
  7. cranial nerve: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. cranial nerve: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. cranial nerve: Dictionary.com
  10. Cranial Nerve, Cranial nerve: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. cranial nerve: Rhymezone
  12. cranial nerve: FreeDictionary.org
  13. cranial nerve: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. cranial nerve: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cranial nerve: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cranial nerve: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. cranial nerve: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  3. cranial nerve: Medical dictionary

(Note: See cranial_nerves as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (cranial nerve)

noun:  (neuroanatomy) Any of the twelve paired nerves that originate from the brainstem or base of the brain instead of the spinal cord.

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