2020 Online Salon
Motor Component of the Trigeminal Nerve
Project Details
- Entrant Name: Brittany Cheung
- Membership Type: Student Submission
- Address: Toronto, Ontario Canada
- Client: Faculty advisor: Dave Mazierski
- Copyright: 2019 Brittany Cheung
- Medium/software used: Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop
- Final presentation format: Print, 8.5×11″ textbook page
- Primary Audience: Neuroanatomy students
Project Description
The trigeminal nerve is the largest and most complex cranial nerve, involving sensation of the face and motor innervation of several muscles, including the muscles of mastication. This textbook page is intended to teach neuroanatomy students about the motor component of the trigeminal nerve, which is found in its third division, the mandibular nerve. Three views describing origin, course, and muscle innervation are presented: ventrolateral (showing the muscles of mastication as well as the mylohyoid and anterior belly of digastric), medial (showing the tensor veli palatini and tensor tympani, as well as where the motor root merges with mandibular nerve), and intracranial at the level of the midpons (showing the masticator nucleus in midbrain and how the mandibular nerve and motor root exit the skull).
