Lesser palatine nerve
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| Nerve: Lesser palatine nerve | |
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| The sphenopalatine ganglion and its branches. (Posterior palatine at bottom right.) | |
| Latin | nervi palatini minores |
| Gray's | subject #200 893 |
| From | pterygopalatine ganglion |
| Dorlands / Elsevier | n_05/12566402 |
The lesser palatine nerve (posterior palatine nerve) descends through the pterygopalatine canal, and emerges by the lesser palatine foramen. It also has nasal branches that innervate the nasal cavity.
It supplies the soft palate, tonsil, and uvula.
External links
- Norman/Georgetown lesson9
- Norman/Georgetown cranialnerves (V)
- MedEd at Loyola GrossAnatomy/h_n/cn/cn1/cnb2.htm
- lesser+palatine+nerves at eMedicine Dictionary
This article was originally based on an entry from a public domain edition of Gray's Anatomy. As such, some of the information contained herein may be outdated. Please edit the article if this is the case, and feel free to remove this notice when it is no longer relevant.
The cranial nerves: trigeminal nerve | |||||||||
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| ophthalmic (V1) | frontal: supratrochlear - supraorbital (lateral branch, medial branch)
nasociliary: long ciliary - infratrochlear - posterior ethmoidal - anterior ethmoidal (external nasal, internal nasal) - sensory root of ciliary ganglion (ciliary ganglion) lacrimal | ||||||||
| maxillary (V2) |
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| mandibular (V3) |
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