Preferred Label : mandibular nerve;
Uberon definition : The motor and sensory nerve subdivision of the trigeminal nerve that transmits sensory
information from the auricle, the external acoustic meatus, tympanic membrane, temporal
region, the cheek, the skin overlying the mandible, the anterior portion of the tongue,
the floor of the mouth, lower teeth and gingiva and transmits motor information from
the muscles of mastication, the mylohyoid muscle and digastric muscle and the muscles
tensor tympani and tensor veli palatini.;
Uberon synonym : mandibular division of trigeminal nerve [Vc; V3]; inferior maxillary nerve; ramus mandibularis (ramus V3); mandibular division of fifth cranial nerve; third division of trigeminal nerve; mandibular nerve [Vc]; mandibular division [V3]; trigeminal V nerve mandibular division; mandibular nerve [V3]; third division of fifth cranial nerve; nervus mandibularis [Vc; V3]; mandibular division [Vc];
Uberon related term : trigeminal nerve mandibular division; nervus mandibularis;
Origin ID : 0000375;
UMLS CUI : C0024695;
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The motor and sensory nerve subdivision of the trigeminal nerve that transmits sensory
information from the auricle, the external acoustic meatus, tympanic membrane, temporal
region, the cheek, the skin overlying the mandible, the anterior portion of the tongue,
the floor of the mouth, lower teeth and gingiva and transmits motor information from
the muscles of mastication, the mylohyoid muscle and digastric muscle and the muscles
tensor tympani and tensor veli palatini.
