Mylohyoid nerve

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

Mylohyoid nerve
Mandibular division of the trigeminal 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.)
Details
Frominferior alveolar nerve
Innervatesmylohyoid muscle, anterior belly of digastric muscle
Identifiers
Latinnervus mylohyoideus
TA98A14.2.01.090
TA26275
FMA53247
Anatomical terms of neuroanatomy

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.

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References

This article incorporates text in the public domain from page 896 of the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)


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