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Summary of glossopharyngeal nerve

 Glossopharyngeal nerve 

Foramen 

Type

Parasympathetic ganglion

Functional component

Function

Nuclei

Jugular foramen

Mixed nerve both sensory and motor

This nerve is related with otic ganglion

SVA: 

Carry taste sensation from the posterior one-thirds of the tongue

Nucleus of tractus solitaries 

 

GVA

Carry  touch pain temperature sensation from pharynx and the posterior one-thirds of the tongue

Nucleus of tractus solitaries 

 

GSA :

Carry sensation from the skin of the external ear.

 

SVE

Stylopharyngeus

Nucleus ambiguus

 

 GVE:

This fibre innervate the parotid gland

Inferior salivary nucleus

 


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