Principal sensory nucleus of trigeminal nerve

Principal sensory nucleus of trigeminal nerve
The cranial nerve nuclei schematically represented; dorsal view. Motor nuclei in red; sensory in blue. (Trigeminal nerve nuclei are at "V".)
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Identifiers
Latin	nucleus principalis nervi trigemini
MeSH	A08.186.211.132.931
NeuroNames	hier-552
Dorlands /Elsevier	n_11/12582704
TA	A14.1.05.406
FMA	54533
Anatomical terms of neuroanatomy []

The principal sensory nucleus (or chief sensory nucleus of V) is a group of second order neurons which have cell bodies in the caudal pons.

It receives information about discriminative sensation and light touch of the face as well as conscious proprioception of the jaw via first order neurons of CN V.