. Anatomy, descriptive and applied. Anatomy. 990 THE NERVE SYSTEM from the plexus surrounding the middle meningeal artery. The ganglion also communicates with the auriculotemporal nerve (ramus anastomoticus cum n. auriculotemporali). This communicating filament is probably a branch from the glossopharyngeal which passes to the ganglion, and through it and the auriculo- temporal nerve to the parotid gland. A slender filament, the sphenoidal, ascends from it to the Vidian nerve. Branches of Distribution.—Its branches of distribution are a filament to the Tensor tympani (n. tensoris tympani) and
. Anatomy, descriptive and applied. Anatomy. 990 THE NERVE SYSTEM from the plexus surrounding the middle meningeal artery. The ganglion also communicates with the auriculotemporal nerve (ramus anastomoticus cum n. auriculotemporali). This communicating filament is probably a branch from the glossopharyngeal which passes to the ganglion, and through it and the auriculo- temporal nerve to the parotid gland. A slender filament, the sphenoidal, ascends from it to the Vidian nerve. Branches of Distribution.—Its branches of distribution are a filament to the Tensor tympani (n. tensoris tympani) and one to the Tensor palati (n. tensoris veil palatini). The former passes backward on the outer side of the Eustachian tube; the latter arises from the ganglion, near the origin of the internal pterygoid nerve, and passes forward. The fibres of these nerves are, however, mainly derived from the nerve to the Internal pterygoid muscle. The Submaxillary Ganglion (ganglion submaxillare) (Fig. 739) is of small size, fusiform in shape, and situated above the deep portion of the submaxillary gland, near the posterior border of the Mylohyoid muscle, being connected by filaments with the lower border of the lingual Fig. 741.—The otic ganglion and its branches Branches of Communication.—^This ganglion is suspended from the lingual nerve by two filaments (rami communicanies cum n. linguali), which join it separately at its fore and back part. It also receives a branch from the chorda tympani, and communicates with the sympathetic by filaments from the sympathetic plexus around the facial artery. Branches of Distribution.—These are five or six in number; they arise from the lower part of the ganglion, and supply the mucous membrane of the mouth and the submaxillary or Wharton's duct, some being lost in the submaxillary gland (rami submaxillares). The branch of communication from the lingual nerve to the fore part of the ganglion is by some regarded as a branch of distribution
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