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Lingual Nerve

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Abstract

A minute sublingual ganglion has been described arising from the lingual nerve or submandibular ganglion (a ganglion of the facial nerve carried by the lingual nerve) supplying the sublingual gland. This nerve may pierce the lateral pterygoid rather than passing between the two pterygoid muscles. It occasionally provides motor branches to the medial and lateral pterygoids and to the palatoglossus muscles.

A minute sublingual ganglion has been described arising from the lingual nerve or submandibular ganglion (a ganglion of the facial nerve carried by the lingual nerve) supplying the sublingual gland.

This nerve may pierce the lateral pterygoid rather than passing between the two pterygoid muscles.

It occasionally provides motor branches to the medial and lateral pterygoids and to the palatoglossus muscles.

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Fitzgerald, M.J.T. and M.E. Law. (1958) The peripheral connexions between the lingual and hypoglossal nerves. J Anat. 92:178-188.
Frank, E. (1956) Zwei Sonderfälle des Nervus lingualis. Anat. Anz. 103:187-191.
Kido, S. and K. Kameda. (1940) über die Ursprungeweise des N. mylo hyoideus und die Anastomosenbildung zwischen dem N. alveolaris mandibularis und dem N. lingualis. Folia Anat. Jpn. 19:597-605.
Racz, L. and T. Maros. (1981) The anatomic variants of the lingual nerve in man. Anat. Anz. 149:64-71.

Anatomical classification

Systems:: Nervous system

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Adaptation of «Lingual Nerve — Illustrated Encyclopedia of Human Anatomic Variation: Opus I: Muscular System» by Ronald A. Bergman, Adel K. Afifi, Ryosuke Miyauchi. Source: https://www.anatomyatlases.org/AnatomicVariants/NervousSystem/Text/LingualNerve.shtml Original work distributed under the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/deed.it). Adaptation by Redazione AIVA. Changes from the original: Testo originale inglese riprodotto integralmente e riorganizzato nel formato scheda del portale (sintesi, testo, riferimenti), senza modificarne le affermazioni. La traduzione italiana non è ancora stata eseguita, e la pagina lo dichiara. Le figure non sono state copiate: sono collegate alla pagina d’origine. This publication is not approved or endorsed by the authors of the original work.

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