While taking a history, the nurse observes that the patient's facial cranial nerves (CN VII) are intact based on which behaviors of the patient?
a. The patient's eyes move to the left, right, up, down, and obliquely during conversation.
b. The patient moistens the lips with the tongue.
c. The sides of the mouth are symmetric when the patient smiles.
d. The patient's eyelids blink periodically.
ANS: C
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