Biology:Lesser palatine nerve

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Lesser palatine nerve
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The sphenopalatine ganglion and its branches. (Posterior palatine at bottom right.)
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Frompterygopalatine ganglion
Identifiers
Latinnervi palatini minores
Anatomical terms of neuroanatomy

The lesser palatine nerves (posterior palatine nerve) are branches of the maxillary nerve (CN V2). They descends through the greater palatine canal alongside the greater palatine nerve, and emerge (separately) through the lesser palatine foramen to pass posteriorward.[1] They supply the soft palate, tonsil,[1][2] and uvula.[2]

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References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Chummy S. Sinnatamby (2011). Last's anatomy: regional and applied. (12th ed.). Edinburgh. pp. 496. ISBN 978-0-7020-4839-5. OCLC 764565702. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 Gray, Henry (1918). Gray's Anatomy (20th ed.). pp. 893. https://archive.org/details/anatomyofhumanbo1918gray?view=theater#page/623/mode/2up. 

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