Lesser palatine nerve

Lesser palatine nerve
The sphenopalatine ganglion and its branches. (Posterior palatine at bottom right.)
Details
From	Pterygopalatine ganglion
Identifiers
Latin	nervi palatini minores
TA98	A14.2.01.047
TA2	6227
FMA	52805
Anatomical terms of neuroanatomy [edit on Wikidata]

The lesser palatine nerves (posterior palatine nerve) are branches of the maxillary nerve (CN V₂). They descends through the greater palatine canal alongside the greater palatine nerve, and emerge (separately) through the lesser palatine foramen to pass posteriorward.[1] They supply the soft palate, tonsil,[1][2] and uvula.[2]

See also

• Greater palatine nerve

References

1. Chummy S. Sinnatamby (2011). Last's anatomy: regional and applied (12th ed.). Edinburgh. p. 496. ISBN 978-0-7020-4839-5. OCLC 764565702.
2. Gray, Henry (1918). Gray's Anatomy (20th ed.). p. 893.

External links

• lesson9 at The Anatomy Lesson by Wesley Norman (Georgetown University)
• cranialnerves at The Anatomy Lesson by Wesley Norman (Georgetown University) (V)
• MedEd at Loyola GrossAnatomy/h_n/cn/cn1/cnb2.htm