Open AccessNaming the Cranial Nerves: a historical note
Author(s) -
Jms Pearce
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
advances in clinical neuroscience and rehabilitation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2397-267X
pISSN - 1473-9348
DOI - 10.47795/kamj2110
Subject(s) - cranial nerves , numbering , cranial trauma , philosophy , history , anatomy , medicine , computer science , surgery , algorithm
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.