11700 IUPAC Gold Book - cranial nerve 10.1351/goldbook.11700 11700 current 1 Each of 12 pairs of nerves that arise directly from the brain, not from the spinal cord, and pass through separate apertures in the skull. brain https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/11647 nerves https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/11909 PAC, 2015, 87, 841. 'IUPAC Glossary of terms used in neurotoxicology (IUPAC Recommendations 2015)' on page 859 (https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2015-0103) https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/11700/html https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/11700/json https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/11700/plain Citation: 'cranial nerve' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351/goldbook.11700 The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) for individual terms. If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org . The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using. 2026-06-28T14:04:14+00:00