Category:GO:0021604 ! cranial nerve structural organization

name: cranial nerve structural organization
namespace: biological_process
def: "The process that contributes to the act of creating the structural organization of the cranial nerves. This process pertains to the physical shaping of a rudimentary structure. 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." [GO_REF:0000021, GOC:cls, GOC:dgh, GOC:dph, GOC:jid, ISBN:0838580343]
synonym: "cranial nerve structural organisation" EXACT [GOC:mah]
is_a: GO:0048532 ! anatomical structure arrangement
relationship: part_of: GO:0021602 ! cranial nerve morphogenesis

AmiGO <GOterm>GO:0021604</GOterm>
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