cranial nerve morphogenesis

id: GO:0021602
name: cranial nerve morphogenesis
namespace: biological_process
type: go
obsolete: False

Description: The process in which the anatomical structure of the cranial nerves are generated and organized. The cranial nerves are composed of twelve pairs of nerves that emanate from the nervous tissue of the hindbrain. These nerves are sensory, motor, or mixed in nature, and provide the motor and general sensory innervation of the head, neck and viscera. They mediate vision, hearing, olfaction and taste and carry the parasympathetic innervation of the autonomic ganglia that control visceral functions.

Child Functions

idname
GO:0021598abducens nerve morphogenesis
GO:0021607accessory nerve morphogenesis
GO:0021610facial nerve morphogenesis
GO:0021615glossopharyngeal nerve morphogenesis
GO:0021618hypoglossal nerve morphogenesis
GO:0021622oculomotor nerve morphogenesis
GO:0021627olfactory nerve morphogenesis
GO:0021631optic nerve morphogenesis
GO:0021636trigeminal nerve morphogenesis
GO:0021639trochlear nerve morphogenesis
GO:0021644vagus nerve morphogenesis
GO:0021648vestibulocochlear nerve morphogenesis

Parent Functions

idname
GO:0009653anatomical structure morphogenesis