Ethmoidal nerves

Ethmoidal nerves
Nerves of the orbit, and the ciliary ganglion seen from the side
Details
From	Nasociliary nerve
Latin	Nervi ethmoidales
*Anatomical terms of neuroanatomy* [edit on Wikidata]

The ethmoidal nerves, which arise from the nasociliary nerve, supply the ethmoidal cells; the posterior branch leaves the orbital cavity through the posterior ethmoidal foramen and gives some filaments to the sphenoidal sinus. There are two ethmoidal nerves on each side of the face:

References

This article incorporates text in the public domain from the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)

near origin	intermediate nerve geniculate

inside facial canal	greater petrosal pterygopalatine ganglion nerve to the stapedius chorda tympani lingual nerve submandibular ganglion

at stylomastoid foramen	posterior auricular suprahyoid digastric stylohyoid parotid plexus temporal zygomatic buccal mandibular cervical

Nuclei	Facial motor nucleus Solitary nucleus Superior salivary nucleus

before jugular fossa	ganglia superior inferior

after jugular fossa	tympanic tympanic plexus lesser petrosal otic ganglion stylopharyngeal branch pharyngeal branches tonsillar branches lingual branches carotid sinus

Nuclei	(Nucleus ambiguus Inferior salivatory nucleus Solitary nucleus

before jugular fossa	ganglia superior inferior

after jugular fossa	meningeal branch auricular branch

neck	pharyngeal branch pharyngeal plexus superior laryngeal external internal recurrent laryngeal (inferior) superior cervical cardiac

thorax	inferior cardiac pulmonary vagal trunks anterior posterior

abdomen	celiac renal hepatic anterior gastric posterior gastric

Nuclei	Nucleus ambiguus Dorsal nucleus of vagus nerve Solitary nucleus

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