Nervous system & sense organs
Posterior division of mandibular nerve
Divisio posterior nervi mandibularis
- System
- Nervous system & sense organs
- Regions
- Head
- Side
- Left and right
- Part of
- Mandibular nerve
DescriptionUnreviewed
The mandibular nerve divides into a small anterior and large posterior trunk after passing between tensor veli palatini, which is medial, and lateral pterygoid, which is lateral, and giving off a meningeal branch (nervus spinosus) and the nerve to medial pterygoid from its medial side.
The posterior division gives off three main sensory branches, the auriculotemporal, lingual and inferior alveolar nerves and motor fibres to supply mylohyoid and the anterior belly of the digastric muscle:
- the auriculotemporal nerve
- the lingual nerve
- and the inferior alveolar nerve
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Parts
Names
- Latin
- Divisio posterior nervi mandibularis
- English
- Posterior division of mandibular nerve
- French
- Division postérieure du nerf mandibulaire
- Spanish
- División posterior del nervio mandibular
- Portuguese
- Divisão posterior do nervo mandibular