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Cranial Nerve 9
Aka: Cranial Nerve 9, Cranial Nerve IX, Glossopharyngeal Nerve, CN 9- See Also
- Cranial Nerve
- Neuroanatomy
- Head and Neck Neuroanatomy
- Tongue Anatomy
- Anatomy: Cranial Nerves 9-11
Lewis (1918) Gray's Anatomy 20th ed (in public domain at Yahoo or BartleBy)
Lewis (1918) Gray's Anatomy 20th ed (in public domain at Yahoo or BartleBy)
Lewis (1918) Gray's Anatomy 20th ed (in public domain at Yahoo or BartleBy)
- Physiology
- Sensory for pain, touch and temperature
- Mucosa of pharynx, fauces, and palatine tonsil
- Taste Sensation for posterior third of Tongue
- Motor with CN 9 to pharynx
- Sensory for pain, touch and temperature
- Course
- Starts in Medulla
- Passes through jugular foramen of skull
- Follows Internal Carotid Artery
- Passes under styloid process and then into pharynx
- Exam
- Done concurrently with Exam of CN 10