Temporal branches of the facial nerve

Temporal branches of the facial nerve
Plan of the facial and intermediate nerves and their communication with other nerves (labeled at center bottom, sixth from bottom, as "Temporal")
The nerves of the scalp, face, and side of neck (temporal labeled at center, between eye and ear.)
Details
From	Facial nerve
Identifiers
Latin	Rami temporales nervi facialis
TA	A14.2.01.109
FMA	53291
*Anatomical terms of neuroanatomy* [edit on Wikidata]

The temporal branches of the facial nerve (frontal branch of the facial nerve) crosses the zygomatic arch to the temporal region, supplying the auriculares anterior and superior, and joining with the zygomaticotemporal branch of the maxillary nerve, and with the auriculotemporal branch of the mandibular nerve.

The more anterior branches supply the frontalis, the orbicularis oculi, and corrugator supercilii, and join the supraorbital and lacrimal branches of the ophthalmic. The temporal branch acts as the efferent limb of the corneal reflex.

Testing the temporal branches of the facial nerve

To test the function of the temporal branches of the facial nerve, a patient is asked to frown and wrinkle his or her forehead.

Anatomy photo:23:06-0106 at the SUNY Downstate Medical Center - "Branches of Facial Nerve (CN VII)"
lesson4 at The Anatomy Lesson by Wesley Norman (Georgetown University) (parotid3)
cranialnerves at The Anatomy Lesson by Wesley Norman (Georgetown University) (VII)
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~humananatomy/figures/chapter_47/47-5.HTM

This article incorporates text in the public domain from the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)

near origin	intermediate nerve geniculate

inside facial canal	greater petrosal pterygopalatine ganglion nerve to the stapedius chorda tympani lingual nerve submandibular ganglion

at stylomastoid foramen	posterior auricular suprahyoid digastric stylohyoid parotid plexus temporal zygomatic buccal mandibular cervical

Nuclei	Facial motor nucleus Solitary nucleus Superior salivary nucleus

before jugular fossa	ganglia superior inferior

after jugular fossa	tympanic tympanic plexus lesser petrosal otic ganglion stylopharyngeal branch pharyngeal branches tonsillar branches lingual branches carotid sinus

Nuclei	(Nucleus ambiguus Inferior salivatory nucleus Solitary nucleus

before jugular fossa	ganglia superior inferior

after jugular fossa	meningeal branch auricular branch

neck	pharyngeal branch pharyngeal plexus superior laryngeal external internal recurrent laryngeal (inferior) superior cervical cardiac

thorax	inferior cardiac pulmonary vagal trunks anterior posterior

abdomen	celiac renal hepatic anterior gastric posterior gastric

Nuclei	Nucleus ambiguus Dorsal nucleus of vagus nerve Solitary nucleus

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