Pharyngeal nerve

Pharyngeal nerve
Pharyngeal nerve
	The pterygopalatine ganglion and its branches. (Pharyngeal visible at center right.)
Details
From	pterygopalatine ganglion
Identifiers
Latin	nervus pharyngeus
TA98	A14.2.01.044
TA2	6223
FMA	77524
	Anatomical terms of neuroanatomy [edit on Wikidata]

The pharyngeal nerve is a small^{[citation needed]} branch of the maxillary nerve (CN V₂),^[1]^: 496 arising at (the posterior part of the^{[citation needed]}) pterygopalatine ganglion. It passes posterior-ward through the palatovaginal canal^[1]^{: 370, 496} with the pharyngeal branch of the maxillary artery.^[1]^: 508

It is distributed to the mucous membrane of the nasopharynx^[1]^{: 370, 496} (its posterior wall, posterior to the pharyngotympanic tube).^{[citation needed]} It also issues some minute orbital branches which pass through the inferior orbital fissure to enter the orbit and innervate the periosteum of the floor of the orbit, and the mucosa of the sphenoid sinus and ethmoid sinus.^[1]^: 370

References

This article incorporates text in the public domain from page 893 of the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Sinnatamby, Chummy S. (2011). Last's Anatomy (12th ed.). ISBN 978-0-7295-3752-0.

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