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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.)
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| Latin
| ramus superior nervi oculomotorii
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| Gray's
| subject #198 884
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| Innervates
| Superior rectus, Levator palpebrae superioris
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| From
| oculomotor nerve
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| Dorlands/Elsevier
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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 |
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| I-IV | olfactory • optic • oculomotor (superior branch, inferior branch) • trochlear |
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| V: trigeminal | trigeminal ganglion • ophthalmic • maxillary • mandibular |
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| VI: abducens | no significant branches |
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| 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) |
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| VIII: vestibulocochlear | cochlear (striae medullares, lateral lemniscus) • vestibular (Scarpa's ganglion) |
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| IX: glossopharyngeal | nucleus ambiguus • ganglia (superior, petrous) • tympanic (tympanic plexus, lesser petrosal) • carotid sinus • pharyngeal branches • pharyngeal plexus |
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| 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) |
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| XI-XII | accessory • hypoglossal |
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