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passes to the lingual nerve. Occasionally one or two small branches
are found which communicate with the hypoglossal nerv^e (Meckel and
. Bose). None of the branches of the submaxillary ganglion are dis-
tributed to muscles, which is in marked contrast with the branches
from the otic ganglion.

The Facial Nerve.
The facial, seventh, or nerve of exj^ression (the portio dura of the
seventh pair of nerves, according to the arrangement of AVillis) (Fig.
148) controls the muscles of expression. This fact alone would make
it a nerve of vast importance to all those who study the face either from
a surgical or an artistic standpoint. It not only transmits the motor
stimulus to all the superficial muscles of the face, except the levator
Fig. 148.

Diagram of the I'acial Nerve and its Distribution : 1, Facial nerve at its entrance into the internal
auditory meatus; 2, its exit at the stylo-niastoid foramen :!, 4, temporal and posterior auricular
;
branches, (listril>uted to th • muscles of the external ear and to the occipitalis; 5, branches to the
frontalis muscle ti. branches to the stylo-hyoid and digastric muscles;
; 7, branches to the upper
part of the philysma niyoides; .s, braueh of communication with the superficial cervical nerve of
the cervical plexus.
palpcbrje sui)erioris, but likewise to the scalp, the external ear, platysma
myoides, buccinator, ])()steri()r belly of the digastric, and stylo-hyoid
muscles. Through communicating branches it unites the anterior and