Posterior auricular nerve 5336264 213101625 2008-05-17T19:54:34Z Ginosbot 7020891 robot Adding: [[hu:Nervus auricularis posterior]] {{Infobox Nerve | Name = {{PAGENAME}} | Latin = n. auricularis posterior | GraySubject = 202 | GrayPage = 905 | Image = Gray788.png | Caption = Plan of the facial and intermediate nerves and their communication with other nerves. (Post. auricular br. labeled at bottom left.) | Image2 = Gray790.png | Caption2 = The nerves of the scalp, face, and side of neck. (Post. auricular visible near center, behind ear.) | Innervates = | BranchFrom = [[facial nerve]] | BranchTo = | MeshName = | MeshNumber = | DorlandsPre = n_05 | DorlandsSuf = 12565234 | }} The '''posterior auricular nerve''' arises close to the [[stylomastoid foramen]] and runs upward in front of the [[mastoid process]]; here it is joined by a filament from the [[auricular branch]] of the [[vagus]] and communicates with the posterior branch of the [[great auricular]] as well as with the [[lesser occipital]]. As it ascends between the [[external acoustic meatus]] and mastoid process it divides into auricular and occipital branches. * The ''auricular branch'' supplies the [[auricularis posterior]] and the intrinsic muscles on the cranial surface of the [[auricula]]. * The ''occipital branch'', the larger, passes backward along the [[superior nuchal line]] of the [[occipital bone]] and supplies the [[occipitalis]]. ==See also== * [[posterior auricular artery]] ==External links== * {{eMedicineDictionary|Posterior+auricular+nerve}} * {{NormanAnatomy|lesson4}} ({{NormanAnatomyFig|parotid3}}) * {{NormanAnatomy|cranialnerves}} ({{NormanAnatomyFig|VII}}) * http://www.dartmouth.edu/~humananatomy/figures/chapter_47/47-5.HTM {{Gray's}} {{neuroscience-stub}} {{Cranial nerves}} [[Category:Nervous system]] [[hu:Nervus auricularis posterior]] [[sr:Задњи ушни живац]]