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Principal sensory nucleus of trigeminal nerve

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Principal sensory nucleus of trigeminal nerve
The cranial nerve nuclei schematically represented; dorsal view. Motor nuclei in red; sensory in blue. (Trigeminal nerve nuclei are at "V".)
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Identifiers
Latinnucleus principalis nervi trigemini
NeuroNames560
TA98A14.1.05.406
TA25932
FMA54533
Anatomical terms of neuroanatomy

The principal sensory nucleus of trigeminal nerve (or chief sensory nucleus of V, main trigeminal sensory nucleus) is a group of second-order neurons which have cell bodies in the caudal pons.

It receives information about discriminative sensation and light touch of the face as well as conscious proprioception of the jaw via first order neurons of CN V.