Tonsillar branches of glossopharyngeal nerve

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Nerve: Tonsillar branches of glossopharyngeal nerve
Latin	rami tonsillares nervi glossopharyngei
Gray's	subject #204 909
From	glossopharyngeal nerve
Dorlands / Elsevier	r_02/12692346

The tonsillar branches of glossopharyngeal nerve supply the palatine tonsil, forming around it a plexus from which filaments are distributed to the soft palate and fauces, where they communicate with the palatine nerves.

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