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Identify by its course and target. Distinguish sensory, motor and autonomic components. Confirm its skull-base exit or spinal origin.
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Mandibular division (V3): magnified reference view with a numbered learning marker. The complete original plate is available in the next view.
Image: Gray’s Anatomy (1918); illustrator attribution on original plate · Source / original · Public domainNumbered markers and focused views are Mediveerse learning overlays; the original reference is linked above.
Mandibular division (V3)
Understand what you see.
Mixed division supplying lower facial sensation and first-arch muscles.
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How to recognise it.
- Identify by its course and target
- Distinguish sensory, motor and autonomic components
- Confirm its skull-base exit or spinal origin
Point them out.
Tap a number to open its reference, zoom in and locate the structure. Numbers stay the same across views. This key follows landmarks visible in the reference images.
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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 mandibular division (v3) and give its main role.+
Identify by its course and target. Distinguish sensory, motor and autonomic components. Confirm its skull-base exit or spinal origin. Mixed division supplying lower facial sensation and first-arch muscles.
02Name motor targets beyond muscles of mastication.+
Mylohyoid, anterior digastric, tensor tympani and tensor veli palatini.
03Is the long buccal nerve motor to buccinator?+
No. It is sensory. Buccinator motor supply is from VII.
04Point out three important relations and explain their significance.+
Foramen ovale; Infratemporal fossa; Sensory and motor branches. Mixed division supplying lower facial sensation and first-arch muscles. Use the reference plate to locate the region; the relationship map organises the associations and is not drawn to scale.
Read the references.
Credited anatomical plates, microscopy and university teaching references. Individual image credits appear below the viewer. Historical plates can use older terminology; use the lesson text for current names.