Usually means: Controls muscles for facial expressions.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word facial nerve:

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

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Body Piercing Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Body Piercing Glossary (No longer online)

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

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

Medicine (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. facial nerve: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Facial nerve, Nerve, facial: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Facial nerve: Merck Manuals
  6. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  7. Facial Nerve: Anatomy of the Human Body
  8. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  9. Neurotrauma Glossary (No longer online)
  10. facial nerve: Medical dictionary
  11. Facial nerve, Nerve, facial: Drug Medical Dictionary

(Note: See facial_nerves as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (facial nerve)

noun:  (neuroanatomy) The seventh (VII) of twelve paired cranial nerves that supply motor fibers especially to the muscles of the face and jaw and sensory and parasympathetic fibers to the tongue, palate, and fauces.

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