Zygomatic branches of facial nerve

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Nerve: Zygomatic branches of facial nerve

Plan of the facial and intermediate nerves and their communication with other nerves. (Labeled at center bottom, fifth from bottom, as "Malar".)

The nerves of the scalp, face, and side of neck. (Zygomatic labeled at center, near cheek.)
Latin	rami zygomatici nervi facialis
Gray's	subject #202 905
From	facial nerve
Dorlands/Elsevier	r_02/12692551

The Zygomatic branches of the facial nerve (malar branches) run across the zygomatic bone to the lateral angle of the orbit, where they supply the Orbicularis oculi, and join with filaments from the lacrimal nerve and the zygomaticofacial branch of the maxillary nerve.

[edit] See also

Zygomatic nerve

[edit] External links

SUNY Labs 23:06-0105 - "Branches of Facial Nerve (CN VII)"
Norman/Georgetown lesson4 (parotid3)
Norman/Georgetown cranialnerves (VII)

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Nerves of head and neck: the cranial nerves

I-IV: olfactory - optic - oculomotor (superior branch, inferior branch) - trochlear

V: trigeminal: trigeminal ganglion
V1: ophthalmic: lacrimal - frontal (supratrochlear, supraorbital) - nasociliary (long root of ciliary, long ciliary, infratrochlear, posterior ethmoidal, anterior ethmoidal) - ciliary ganglion (short ciliary)
V2: maxillary: middle meningeal - in the pterygopalatine fossa (zygomatic, zygomaticotemporal, zygomaticofacial, sphenopalatine, posterior superior alveolar)
in the infraorbital canal/infraorbital nerve (middle superior alveolar, anterior superior alveolar)
on the face (inferior palpebral, external nasal, superior labial, infraorbital plexus) - pterygopalatine ganglion (deep petrosal, nerve of pterygoid canal)
branches of distribution (greater palatine, lesser palatine, nasopalatine, pharyngeal)
V3: mandibular: meningeal - medial pterygoid - anterior (masseteric, deep temporal, buccal, lateral pterygoid)
posterior (auriculotemporal, lingual, inferior alveolar, mylohyoid, mental) - otic ganglion - submandibular ganglion