Inner ear and facial nerve

Question 1

Through what fo. does facial nerve enter the temporal bone?

Answer 1

Internal auditory meatus

Question 2

What ganglion is found in the petrous temporal bone?

Answer 2

Geniculate ganglion

Question 3

Greater petrosal nerve forms from geniculate ganglion, where does this go?

Answer 3

Through nerve to pterygoid canal to pterygopalatine ganglion

Question 4

What is the sympathetic innervation to pteyrgopalatine ganglion?

Answer 4

Deep petrosal nerve

Question 5

What nerves does the pterygopalatine ganglion give off?

Answer 5

Lacrimal nerve and nerves to pharynx and palate

Question 6

What branches fo the facial nerve are given off in the parotid gland?

Answer 6

Temporal
Zygomatic
Buccal
Mandibular
Cervical

Question 7

Through what fo. does facial nerve leave petrous temporal and enter the parotid gland?

Answer 7

Stylomastoid fo.

Question 8

Of what is lesser petrosal nerve a branch?

Answer 8

IX

Question 9

Of what is greater petrosal nerve a branch?

Answer 9

VII

Question 10

Chorda tympani is a brach of VII it joins lingual nerve through what fissure?

Answer 10

Squamotympanic fissure

Question 11

What is lesser petrosal nerve a parasympathetic nerve to?

Answer 11

Otic ganglion

Question 12

Of what is the lingual nerve a branch?

Answer 12

The posterior branch of V3

Question 13

To which ganglion is chordates tympani a preganglionic, parasympathetic secretomotor axon?

Answer 13

Submandibular and sublingual ganglion