Anterior ethmoidal nerve

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Nerve: Anterior ethmoidal nerve
The ophthalmic artery and its branches. (Nerve not pictured, but location is similar to artery.)
Latin	nervus ethmoidalis anterior
Gray's	subject #200 888
From	nasociliary nerve
Dorlands / Elsevier	n_05/12565753

The anterior ethmoidal nerve is a nerve which provides sensory branches to the nasal cavity.^[1] The branches it gives rise to are called the internal and external nasal branches of the anterior ethmoidal nerve, and the external branch ultimately innervates skin on the lateral sides of the nose.

[edit] See also

• anterior ethmoidal artery
• ethmoidal foramina

Specifically, innervates the septum of the nasal cavity.

[edit] References

1. ^ Norman/Georgetown lesson9

[edit] External links

• Anterior+ethmoidal+nerve at eMedicine Dictionary
• MedEd at Loyola GrossAnatomy/h_n/cn/cn1/cnb1.htm
• Norman/Georgetown cranialnerves (V)
• http://www.dartmouth.edu/~humananatomy/figures/chapter_45/45-6.HTM

v • d • e The cranial nerves: trigeminal nerve ophthalmic (V1) frontal: supratrochlear - supraorbital (lateral branch, medial branch) nasociliary: long ciliary - infratrochlear - posterior ethmoidal - anterior ethmoidal (external nasal, internal nasal) - sensory root of ciliary ganglion (ciliary ganglion) lacrimal maxillary (V2) in meninges middle meningeal in pterygopalatine fossa zygomatic (zygomaticotemporal, zygomaticofacial) - pterygopalatine (pterygopalatine ganglion see below for details) - posterior superior alveolar in infraorbital canal infraorbital nerve: superior alveolar (middle, anterior) - internal nasal branches on face inferior palpebral - external nasal - superior labial (infraorbital plexus) mandibular (V3) in meninges meningeal anterior to muscles of mastication (medial pterygoid/to tensor veli palatini, lateral pterygoid, masseteric, deep temporal) - buccal posterior auriculotemporal (otic ganglion) - lingual (submandibular ganglion) - inferior alveolar (mylohyoid, mental)