Plan of the facial and intermediate nerves and their communication with other nerves. (Labeled at center bottom, as "Cervical".)
The nerves of the scalp, face, and side of neck. (Cervical labeled at center, in dark region under jaw.)
Details
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Facial nerve
Innervates
Platysma muscle
Identifiers
Latin
ramus colli nervi facialis
TA98
A14.2.01.114
TA2
6306
FMA
53396
Anatomical terms of neuroanatomy
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The cervical branch of the facial nerve is a nerve in the neck. It is a branch of the facial nerve (VII). It supplies the platysma muscle, among other functions.
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Thefacialnerve, also known as the seventh cranial nerve, cranial nerve VII, or simply CN VII, is a cranial nerve that emerges from the pons ofthe brainstem...
descends from the angle ofthe mandible to the clavicle. The platysma muscle is supplied by thecervicalbranchofthefacialnerve. The platysma muscle is...
ultimately synapse in the pterygopalatine ganglion. It branches from thefacialnerve (CN VII) and is derived from the parasympathetic part ofthe nervus intermedius...
mandibular division of the trigeminal nerve (CN V3) and from thefacialnerve (CN VII). The fibres from the trigeminal nerve are for touch, pain and temperature...
axons from the deep petrosal nerve, a branchofthe internal carotid plexus (cell bodies are located in the superior cervical ganglion) The preganglionic...
branch from the superior cervical ganglion. The superior laryngeal nerve produces of two branches: the internal laryngeal nerve (its sensory branch)...
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exit the brainstem as part ofthefacialnerve (CN VII). Within thefacial canal at the geniculate ganglion the axons branch from thefacialnerve forming...
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Chorda tympani is a branchofthefacialnerve that carries gustatory (taste) sensory innervation from the front ofthe tongue and parasympathetic (secretomotor)...
supplied by the temporal branchoffacialnerve, while the occipital belly or occipitalis is supplied by the posterior auricular branchoffacialnerve. Lymphatic...
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today. The cutaneous innervation ofthe head is as follows: Ophthalmic nerve (green) Maxillary nerve (pink) Mandibular nerve (yellow) Cervical plexus...
cervical nerves. It is derived from their ventral rami, in spite ofthe fact that the latissimus dorsi is found in the back. The thoracodorsal nerve is...