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Distribution of the maxillary and mandibular nerves, and the submaxillary ganglion.
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Lingual nerve

Locate lingual nerve on this anatomical reference. Read the original plate labels to confirm the view and adjacent structures.

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Distribution of the maxillary and mandibular nerves, and the submaxillary ganglion.

Image: Gray’s Anatomy (1918); illustrator attribution on original plate · Source / original · Public domain

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Chorda tympani

Nerves & ganglia

Chorda tympani

STRUCTURE & FUNCTION

Understand what you see.

Carries taste from anterior tongue and preganglionic parasympathetic fibres for submandibular/sublingual glands.

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01 / IDENTIFICATION

How to recognise it.

  1. Identify by its course and target
  2. Distinguish sensory, motor and autonomic components
  3. Confirm its skull-base exit or spinal origin
02 / KEY STRUCTURES

Point them out.

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Related features & study points (3)

Additional relations, attachments or microscopic details to revise alongside this plate. These are separate from its numbered image landmarks.

  • Facial canal branch
  • Middle-ear crossing
  • Joins lingual nerve
03 / VIVA PRACTICE

Think first. Then reveal.

Say your answer aloud before opening the suggested response.

Examiner-style prompts: identify the structure, explain its relations, then answer the applied follow-up. These are revision questions, not authenticated past papers.

01Identify chorda tympani and give its main role.
SUGGESTED ANSWER

Identify by its course and target. Distinguish sensory, motor and autonomic components. Confirm its skull-base exit or spinal origin. Carries taste from anterior tongue and preganglionic parasympathetic fibres for submandibular/sublingual glands.

02How does it leave the skull?
SUGGESTED ANSWER

Through the petrotympanic fissure before joining lingual nerve in the infratemporal region.

03Where do its parasympathetic fibres synapse?
SUGGESTED ANSWER

Submandibular ganglion. Taste fibres do not synapse there.

04Point out three important relations and explain their significance.
SUGGESTED ANSWER

Facial canal branch; Middle-ear crossing; Joins lingual nerve. Carries taste from anterior tongue and preganglionic parasympathetic fibres for submandibular/sublingual glands. Use the reference plate to locate the region; the relationship map organises the associations and is not drawn to scale.

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