Supraorbital nerve

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Nerve: Supraorbital nerve
Nerves of the orbit. Seen from above. (Supraorbital nerve labeled at upper right.)
The tarsi and their ligaments. Right eye; front view. (Supraorbital nerve labeled at upper right.)
Latin	nervus supraorbitalis
Gray's	subject #200 888
Innervates	frontal sinus
From	ophthalmic division, frontal nerve
Dorlands / Elsevier	n_05/12566851

The supraorbital nerve is a terminal branch of the frontal nerve.

It passes through the supraorbital foramen, and gives off, in this situation, palpebral filaments to the upper eyelid.

It then ascends upon the forehead, and ends in two branches, a medial and a lateral, which supply the integument of the scalp, reaching nearly as far back as the lambdoidal suture; they are at first situated beneath the Frontalis:

• the medial branch perforates the muscle.
• the lateral branch perforates the galea aponeurotica.

Both branches supply small twigs to the pericranium.

See also

• Supra-orbital artery
• Supraorbital vein

Additional images

Sensory areas of the head, showing the general distribution of the three divisions of the fifth nerve.

The nerves of the scalp, face, and side of neck.

Outline of side of face, showing chief surface markings.

External link

• Knize D (1995). "A study of the supraorbital nerve.". Plast Reconstr Surg 96 (3): 564-9. PMID 7638280.
• MedEd at Loyola GrossAnatomy/h_n/cn/cn1/cnb1.htm
• Norman/Georgetown lesson3 (orbit2)
• Norman/Georgetown cranialnerves (V)

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v • d • e The cranial nerves: trigeminal nerve
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)	in meninges middle meningeal in pterygopalatine fossa zygomatic (zygomaticotemporal, zygomaticofacial) - pterygopalatine (pterygopalatine ganglion see below for details) - posterior superior alveolar in infraorbital canal infraorbital nerve: superior alveolar (middle, anterior) - internal nasal branches on face inferior palpebral - external nasal - superior labial (infraorbital plexus)
mandibular (V3)	in meninges meningeal anterior to muscles of mastication (medial pterygoid/to tensor veli palatini, lateral pterygoid, masseteric, deep temporal) - buccal posterior auriculotemporal (otic ganglion) - lingual (submandibular ganglion) - inferior alveolar (mylohyoid, mental)