Supraorbital nerve

Supraorbital nerve
Nerves of the orbit seen from above (supraorbital nerve labeled at upper right)
The tarsi and their ligaments. Right eye; front view. (Supraorbital nerve labeled at upper right.)
Details
From	Ophthalmic division, frontal nerve
Innervates	frontal sinus
Identifiers
Latin	Nervus supraorbitalis
TA	A14.2.01.021
FMA	52655
Anatomical terms of neuroanatomy [edit on Wikidata]

The supraorbital nerve is a terminal branch of the frontal nerve.

It passes through the supraorbital foramen, and gives off, in this situation, palpebral filaments to the upper eyelid. Additionally it supplies the conjunctiva of the eye, the frontal sinus and the skin from the forehead extending back to the middle of the scalp.

Branches

It then ascends upon the forehead, and ends in two branches, a medial and a lateral, which supply the integument of the scalp, reaching nearly as far back as the lambdoidal suture; they are at first situated beneath the frontalis:

• the medial branch perforates the muscle.
• the lateral branch perforates the galea aponeurotica.

Both branches supply small twigs to the pericranium.

Additional images

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  Sensory areas of the head, showing the general distribution of the three divisions of the fifth nerve.
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  The nerves of the scalp, face, and side of neck.
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  Outline of side of face, showing chief surface markings.
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  supraorbital nerve
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  Extrinsic eye muscle. Nerves of orbita. Deep dissection.
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  Extrinsic eye muscle. Nerves of orbita. Deep dissection.
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  Extrinsic eye muscle. Nerves of orbita. Deep dissection.
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  Extrinsic eye muscle. Nerves of orbita. Deep dissection.
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  Extrinsic eye muscle. Nerves of orbita. Deep dissection.

See also

• Supra-orbital artery
• Supraorbital vein

References

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

External links

• Knize D (1995). "A study of the supraorbital nerve". Plast Reconstr Surg. 96 (3): 564–9. doi:10.1097/00006534-199509000-00007. PMID 7638280. 
• MedEd at Loyola GrossAnatomy/h_n/cn/cn1/cnb1.htm
• lesson3 at The Anatomy Lesson by Wesley Norman (Georgetown University) (orbit2)
• cranialnerves at The Anatomy Lesson by Wesley Norman (Georgetown University) (V)
• http://www.dartmouth.edu/~humananatomy/figures/chapter_47/47-2.HTM