How to pronounce “facial nerve” in English

I delicately interrogate the sense of taste on each half of her tongue with a drop of saline solution and then a packet of artificial sweetener from her lunch tray.I'm testing the fragile branch of her inflamed facial nerve that would ordinarily translate the sharpness of salt or the chemical sweetness of the sugar substituteinto a signal her brain can interpret.

And then it happens, and immediately the shame comes.clownish. A tiny twig of the facial nerve, the one to the muscles of her mouth, has been severed.

That make sense? Yeah.Like for example, along the face, an anastomosis with the facial nerve.