cranial nerve vs accessory nerve

accessory nerve vs cranial nerve

cranial nerve and accessory nerve both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
cranial nerve	Yes	No	No	No
accessory nerve	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, accessory nerve is a hyponym of cranial nerve; that is, accessory nerve is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than cranial nerve:

cranial nerve: any of the 12 paired nerves that originate in the brain stem
accessory nerve: arises from two sets of roots (cranial and spinal) that unite to form the nerve

Other hyponyms of cranial nerve include first cranial nerve, nervii olfactorii, olfactory nerve, nervus opticus, optic nerve, optic tract, second cranial nerve, nervus oculomotorius, oculomotor, oculomotor nerve, third cranial nerve, fourth cranial nerve, trochlear, trochlear nerve, trochlearis, fifth cranial nerve, nervus trigeminus, trigeminal, trigeminal nerve, trigeminus, abducens, abducens nerve, abducent, abducent nerve, nervus abducens, sixth cranial nerve, facial, facial nerve, nervus facialis, seventh cranial nerve, acoustic nerve, auditory nerve, eighth cranial nerve, nervus vestibulocochlearis, vestibulocochlear nerve, glossopharyngeal nerve, nervus glossopharyngeus, ninth cranial nerve, nervus vagus, pneumogastric, pneumogastric nerve, tenth cranial nerve, vagus, vagus nerve, wandering nerve, eleventh cranial nerve, nervus accessorius, spinal accessory, hypoglossal, hypoglossal nerve, nervus hypoglosus, twelfth cranial nerve.

cranial nerve (noun)	accessory nerve (noun)
any of the 12 paired nerves that originate in the brain stem	arises from two sets of roots (cranial and spinal) that unite to form the nerve

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