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©2013 UpToDate ® Print Email Bell's palsy: Idiopathic facial nerve (cranial nerve VII) palsy Man with idiopathic peripheral facial nerve (cranial nerve VII) palsy, or Bell's palsy.  A) Demonstrates inability to raise the left eyebrow or generate wrinkles on the left side of forehead; B) Demonstrates difficulty closing the left eye and inability to raise the left corner of mouth; C) Demonstrates drooping at the left corner of mouth, loss of the left nasolabial fold, and inability to completely close the left eye. Reproduced with permission from: Charles Goldberg, MD and The University of California, San Diego. Copyright © 2005 The Regents of the University of California. file://medicine.ucsd.edu/clinicalimg/neuro-central-CN7-palsy2.html.