Pharyngeal branches of glossopharyngeal nerve

Nerve: Pharyngeal branches of glossopharyngeal nerve
Latin	rami pharyngei nervi glossopharyngei
Gray's	subject #204 909
From	glossopharyngeal nerve
To	pharyngeal plexus
Dorlands / Elsevier	r_02/12691600

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The pharyngeal branches of the glossopharyngeal nerve are three or four filaments which unite, opposite the Constrictor pharyngis medius, with the pharyngeal branches of the vagus and sympathetic, to form the pharyngeal plexus.

Branches from this plexus perforate the muscular coat of the pharynx and supply its muscles and mucous membrane.

External links

• Norman/Georgetown cranialnerves (IX)

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