See Also: great auricular nerve(medicine)
posterior branch of great auricular nerve(medicine)
communicating branch of glossopharyngeal nerve with auricular branch of vagus nerve(medicine)
posterior auricular nerve(medicine)
auricular branch of vagus nerve(medicine)
great sciatic nerve(medicine)
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communicating branches of auriculotemporal nerve to facial nerve(medicine)
communicating branch of median nerve with ulnar nerve(medicine)

great auricular nerve (medicine)


great auricular nerve
<anatomy, nerve> Arises from the ventral primary rami of the second and third cervical, spinal nerves, supplies the skin of part of the auricle, adjacent portion of the scalp, and that overlying the angle of the jaw; it also innervates the parotid sheath, conveying from it the pain fibres stimulated by stretching of the sheath during parotitis (mumps).

Synonym: nervus auricularis magnus.