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
TA	A14.2.01.047
FMA	52805
*Anatomical terms of neuroanatomy* [edit on Wikidata]

The lesser palatine nerve (posterior palatine nerve) is one of two palatine nerves that descends through the greater palatine canal, and emerges by the lesser palatine foramen. It is a branch of the maxillary nerve (CN V₂) It also has nasal branches that innervate the nasal cavity.

It supplies the soft palate, tonsil, and uvula.

References

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

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

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

other	lacrimal

infraorbital nerve:	superior alveolar anterior middle posterior internal nasal branches

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

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