MRCEM Notes

Facial Nerve

The facial nerve emerges from the stylomastoid foramen. It has five named terminal motor branches:

  • 1. Cervical
  • 2. Mandibular
  • 3. Buccal
  • 4. Zygomatic
  • 5. Temporal

It also supplies the taste for the anterior two thirds of the tongue and the efferent arc of the corneal reflex.

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