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Facial Nerve Connections

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facial nerve

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Caption: Plan of the facial and intermediate nerves and their communication with other nerves.

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External petrosal nerve

contributed by Dr Frank Gaillard on May 2, 2008

Systems: Central Nervous System

Head & Neck

Section: Anatomy

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Facial Nerve Connections

see case page for further details.

facial nerve

Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body, originally published in 1918 and therefore lapsed into the public domain. Other copies of Gray's Anatomy can be found on

Caption: Plan of the facial and intermediate nerves and their communication with other nerves.

This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired. This applies worldwide.

Used in the following articles:

External petrosal nerve - “The external petrosal nerve is one of the three branches from the geniculate ganglion. It carries sympathetic fibers to the middle meningeal artery.”
Facial nerve (CN VII) - “The facial nerve is one of those cranial nerves that gives a headache just trying to think about it.Although at first glance it is a motor nerve to...”
Geniculate ganglion - “The geniculate ganglion is located at the first genu of the facial nerve at the anterior most part of the Fallopian canal at the junction between t...”
Lesser petrosal nerve - “The lesser petrosal nerve carries parasympathetic (secretory) fibers from both the tympanic plexus and the nervus intermedius, to the parotid gland...”
Vidian nerve - “Vidian nerve (also known as the nerve of the Vidian canal) is so named because of the canal in which is travels: the vidian canal.It is formed by t...”
Greater superficial petrosal nerve - “The greater (superficial) petrosal nerve originates at the geniculate ganglion, where the nervus intermedius and facial nerve join. It contains mai...”