All the cranial nerve nuclei, except that of the trochlear nerve (CN IV) supply nerves of the same side of the body. Lesions occurring in any one of the nuclei resemble the severing of the nerve theyâre associated with. Nerves CN I-V. The olfactory nerve is the first cranial nerve (CN I). It is purely sensory and is responsible for smell.
Related Terms. Also called point of demarcation (POD), demarc extension, or demarc, it is the physical point at which the public network of a telecommunications company (i.e., a phone or cable company) ends and the private network of a customer begins - this is usually where the cable physically enters a building.
Mercator projection. The Mercator projection is a cylindrical map projection presented by the Flemish geographer and cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569. It became the standard map projection for nautical purposes because of its ability to represent lines of constant course, known as rhumb lines or loxodromes, as straight segments that conserve the angles with the meridians. Although the linear scale is equal in all directions around any point, thus preserving the angles and the shapes of small objects, the Merca