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Superior branch of oculomotor nerve
| Nerve: Superior branch of oculomotor nerve |
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| Plan of oculomotor nerve. (Superior branch visible at top.) |
| Latin |
ramus superior nervi oculomotorii |
| Gray's |
subject #198 884 |
| Innervates |
Superior rectus, Levator palpebrae superioris |
| From |
oculomotor nerve |
| Dorlands/Elsevier |
r_02/12692191 |
The superior branch of the oculomotor nerve or the superior division, the smaller, passes medialward over the optic nerve.
It supplies the Superior rectus and Levator palpebrae superioris.
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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 • ophthalmic • maxillary • mandibular |
| VI: abducens |
no significant branches |
| VII: facial |
nervus intermedius • geniculate • inside facial canal (greater petrosal, nerve to the stapedius, chorda tympani) • at exit from stylomastoid foramen (posterior auricular, digastric • stylohyoid) • on face (temporal, zygomatic, buccal, mandibular, cervical) |
| VIII: vestibulocochlear |
cochlear (striae medullares, lateral lemniscus) • vestibular (Scarpa's ganglion) |
| IX: glossopharyngeal |
nucleus ambiguus • ganglia (superior, petrous) • tympanic (tympanic plexus, lesser petrosal) • carotid sinus • pharyngeal branches • pharyngeal plexus |
| X: vagus |
ganglia (jugular, nodose) • in the jugular fossa (meningeal branch, auricular branch) • in the neck (pharyngeal branch, superior laryngeal ext and int, recurrent laryngeal, superior cervical cardiac) • in the thorax (inferior cardiac, pulmonary branches, anterior vagal trunk, posterior vagal trunk) • in the abdomen (celiac branches - renal branches - hepatic branches of anterior vagal trunk - anterior gastric branches of anterior vagal trunk - posterior gastric branches of posterior vagal trunk) |
| XI-XII |
accessory • hypoglossal |
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