Mylohyoid nerve

Nerve: Mylohyoid nerve
Mandibular division of the trifacial nerve. (Label for mylohyoid nerve is at bottom center.)
Mandibular division of trifacial nerve, seen from the middle line. The small figure is an enlarged view of the otic ganglion. (Label "to mylohyoid" at bottom left.)
Latin	nervus mylohyoideus
Gray's	subject #200 896
Innervates	mylohyoid muscle, anterior belly of digastric muscle
From	inferior alveolar nerve

The mylohyoid nerve (or nerve to mylohyoid) is a nerve that innervates the mylohyoid muscle and the anterior belly of the digastric muscle.

Structure

The mylohyoid nerve branches from the inferior alveolar nerve (a branch of the mandibular nerve, the third part of the trigeminal nerve) just before it enters the mandibular foramen.

It descends in a groove on the deep surface of the ramus of the mandible, and reaching the under surface of the mylohyoid muscle, it supplies both the mylohyoid and the anterior belly of the digastric muscle.

Additional images

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  Mandible of human embryo 24 mm. long. Outer aspect.

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  Mandible of human embryo 95 mm. long. Inner aspect. Nuclei of cartilage stippled.

External links

• SUNY Labs 27:09-0102 - "Infratemporal Fossa: The Inferior Alveolar Nerve and the Vessels"
• MedEd at Loyola GrossAnatomy/h_n/cn/cn1/cnb3.htm
• lesson4 at The Anatomy Lesson by Wesley Norman (Georgetown University) (mandibularnerve)
• cranialnerves at The Anatomy Lesson by Wesley Norman (Georgetown University) (V)
• nerve+to+mylohyoid at eMedicine Dictionary

This article was originally based on an entry from a public domain edition of Gray's Anatomy. As such, some of the information contained within it may be outdated.