You Taste a Sauce with the "Tip of Your Tongue

question 89

Multiple Choice

You taste a sauce with the "tip of your tongue." These taste sensations would be carried via the ________ cranial nerve.

• A) facial (VII)
• B) vagus (X)
• C) trigeminal (V)
• D) glossopharyngeal (IX)
• E) hypoglossal (XII)

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