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Lesser palatine nerve

Lesser palatine nerve
The sphenopalatine ganglion and its branches. (Posterior palatine at bottom right.)
Details
From	pterygopalatine ganglion
Identifiers
Latin	nervi palatini minores
TA98	A14.2.01.047
TA2	6227
FMA	52805
Anatomical terms of neuroanatomy [edit on Wikidata]

The lesser palatine nerves (posterior palatine nerve) are branches of the maxillary nerve (CN V₂). They descends through the greater palatine canal alongside the greater palatine nerve, and emerge (separately) through the lesser palatine foramen to pass posteriorward.^[1] They supply the soft palate, tonsil,^[1]^[2] and uvula.^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b Chummy S. Sinnatamby (2011). Last's anatomy: regional and applied (12th ed.). Edinburgh. p. 496. ISBN 978-0-7020-4839-5. OCLC 764565702.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^ ^a ^b Gray, Henry (1918). Gray's Anatomy (20th ed.). p. 893.

External links

lesson9 at The Anatomy Lesson by Wesley Norman (Georgetown University)
cranialnerves at The Anatomy Lesson by Wesley Norman (Georgetown University) (V)
MedEd at Loyola GrossAnatomy/h_n/cn/cn1/cnb2.htm

The trigeminal nerve

ophthalmic (V1)

frontal	supratrochlear supraorbital
nasociliary	long ciliary infratrochlear posterior ethmoidal anterior ethmoidal external nasal sensory root of ciliary ganglion ciliary ganglion
lacrimal

maxillary (V2)

in middle cranial fossa	middle meningeal
in pterygopalatine fossa	zygomatic zygomaticotemporal zygomaticofacial infraorbital posterior superior alveolar middle superior alveolar anterior superior alveolar

mandibular (V3)

in middle cranial fossa	meningeal
anterior division	to muscles of mastication medial pterygoid/to tensor veli palatini lateral pterygoid masseteric deep temporal buccal
posterior division	auriculotemporal otic ganglion lingual submandibular ganglion inferior alveolar mylohyoid mental