The facial nerve is the seventh cranial nerve and controls the muscles of facial expression, taste, general sensation, and glandular secretion. It has the second longest intraosseous course of the 12 cranial nerves, after the mandibular division of the trigeminal nerve. The facial nerve is the most complex in terms of adjacent anatomical structures.

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Intracranial and Intratemporal Regions

  • Nobutaka Yoshioka,
  • Albert L. Rhoton, Jr.,
  • Juan C. Fernandez-Miranda

摘要

The facial nerve is the seventh cranial nerve and controls the muscles of facial expression, taste, general sensation, and glandular secretion. It has the second longest intraosseous course of the 12 cranial nerves, after the mandibular division of the trigeminal nerve. The facial nerve is the most complex in terms of adjacent anatomical structures.