See Also: vidian nerve(medicine)
Herbal medicine (botanical medicine, herbology, phytomedicine)(health)
vidian(medicine)
vidian artery(medicine)
vidian vein(medicine)
vidian canal(medicine)
Medicine Lodge Memorial Hospital- Medicine Lodge(health)
communicating branch of facial nerve with glossopharyngeal nerve(medicine)
communicating branches of auriculotemporal nerve to facial nerve(medicine)
communicating branch of median nerve with ulnar nerve(medicine)

vidian nerve (medicine)


vidian nerve -->
nerve of pterygoid canal


The nerve constituting the parasympathetic and sympathetic root of the pterygopalatine ganglion; it is formed in the region of the foramen lacerum by the union of the greater superficial petrosal and the deep petrosal nerves, and runs through the pterygoid canal to the pterygopalatine fossa.

Synonym: nervus canalis pterygoidei, radix facialis, facial root, vidian nerve.