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Pharyngeal branches of glossopharyngeal nerve

Pharyngeal branches of glossopharyngeal nerve

Nerve filaments in the face

The pharyngeal branches of the glossopharyngeal nerve are three or four filaments which unite, opposite the constrictor pharyngis medius, with the pharyngeal branches of the vagus and sympathetic, to form the pharyngeal plexus.

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Branches from this plexus perforate the muscular coat of the pharynx and supply its muscles and mucous membrane.

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Public domain This article incorporates text in the public domain from page 909 of the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)

  • cranialnerves at The Anatomy Lesson by Wesley Norman (Georgetown University) (IX)
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