vidian nerve
Alveolar
branches of superior maxillary nerve and sphenopalatine ganglion. (Testut.)
Plan of the
facial and intermediate nerves and their communication with other nerves.
Sympathetic
connections of the sphenopalatine and superior cervical ganglia.
Vidian nerve, also known as the nerve of the pterygoid canal or nerve of the Vidian canal, is so named because of the canal in which it travels: the Vidian canal.
It is formed by the confluence of two nerves:
- greater superfical petrosal nerve (from the geniculate ganglion of the facial nerve) carrying parasympathetic fibers from the superior salivary nucleus
- deep petrosal nerve (from the sympathetic plexus on the internal carotid artery) carrying sympathetic fibers
The nerve exits its canal in the pterygopalatine fossa and joins the pterygopalatine ganglion.
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