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mandibular nerve

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The motor and sensory nerve subdivision of the trigeminal nerve that transmits sensory information from the auricle, the external acoustic meatus, tympanic membrane, temporal region, the cheek, the skin overlying the mandible, the anterior portion of the tongue, the floor of the mouth, lower teeth and gingiva and transmits motor information from the muscles of mastication, the mylohyoid muscle and digastric muscle and the muscles tensor tympani and tensor veli palatini. [ MP:0009800 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandibular_nerve ]

Synonyms: nervus mandibularis [vc], mandibular division [Vc], third division of trigeminal nerve, ramus mandibularis (ramus V3), mandibular nerve [V3], mandibular division of fifth cranial nerve, third division of fifth cranial nerve, nervus mandibularis [v3], mandibular division [V3], mandibular nerve [Vc], inferior maxillary nerve, trigeminal V nerve mandibular division, mandibular division of trigeminal nerve [Vc; V3], nervus mandibularis [Vc; V3]

Term info

database cross reference
Subsets

pheno_slim, human_reference_atlas

depicted by

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4d/Gray781.png

has related synonym

trigeminal nerve mandibular division, nervus mandibularis, n. mandibularis

id

UBERON:0000375

prefLabel

mandibular nerve, Mandibular nerve

present in taxon

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_9606