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unusual facts about facial nerve



Nervus intermedius

The nervus intermedius, or intermediate nerve, or "nerve of Wrisberg", is the part of the facial nerve (cranial nerve VII) located between the motor component of the facial nerve and the vestibulocochlear nerve (cranial nerve VIII).


see also

Bell's palsy

Named after Scottish anatomist Charles Bell, who first described it, Bell's palsy is the most common acute mononeuropathy (disease involving only one nerve) and is the most common cause of acute facial nerve paralysis (>80%).

Internal auditory meatus

The antero-superior part transmits the facial nerve and nervus intermedius and is separated from the postero-superior section, which transmits the superior vestibular nerve, by Bill's bar (named by William F. House).

Medial pontine syndrome

(Medial pontine syndrome affects structures at the bottom of the diagram: the corticospinal tract, abducens nerve, and occasionally the facial nerve. Medial lemniscus

Salivary nuclei

Superior salivary nucleus of the facial nerve, a visceromotor cranial nerve nucleus located in the pontine tegmentum