Nerve to tensor veli palatini

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Nerve: Nerve to tensor veli palatini
Mandibular division of trifacial nerve, seen from the middle line.
The otic ganglion and its branches. (Tensor veli palatini visible at center left.)
Latin	nervus musculi tensoris veli palatini
Gray's	subject #200 894
Innervates	tensor veli palatini
From	medial pterygoid nerve
Dorlands / Elsevier	n_05/12566244

The nerve to tensor veli palatini is a small nerve which is unique in that it is the only branch of the mandibular nerve providing motor innervation to the palate.

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)