Question | Answer |
Name the parasympathetic cranial nerves | Oculomotor, Facial, Glossopharyngeal and Vagus |
Anatomically wise how is the trigeminal nerve associated with the parasympathic ganglion? | Ophthalmic: Ciliary, Maxillary: Pterygopalatine and Mandibular: Submandibular |
Superior cervical ganglion-ciliary ganglion | SCG passes internal carotid artery, ophthalmic artery and out ciliary ganglion or avoids ciliary ganglion and to ciliary nerve to back of eye |
Lacrimal nerve | Only sensory, branch of ophthalmic to lacrimal gland |
Pterygopalatine ganglion | Sit in fissure between maxilla and pterygoid process. Responsible for all lacrimal, nasal and secretions of sinuses. |
What gives off deep, lesser and greater petrosal? | Carotid plexus: deep petrosal through foramen lacerum. Facial: greater petrosal that synapses in pterygopalatine ganglion. Glossopharyngeal: Lesser petrosal which synapses at otic |
Chorda tympani | Anterior 2/3 of tongue for taste. branch of facial nerve. |
Lingual nerve | Submandibular ganglion is hanging off of lingual nerve |
Otic ganglion | Parasympathetic: Tympanic branch of Glossopharyngeal nerve that comes out of middle cranial fossa as lesser petrosal and synapses at otic ganglion. |
Auriculotemporal nerve | Sympathethic and parasympathetic nerves back to parotid gland |
Ciliary ganglion | Oculomotor nerve and short and long ciliary nerves go to the back of the eye |
Submandibular ganglion | Innervates the submandibular gland and sublingual gland which secretes saliva via the chorda tympani synapse in the ganglion |