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d. Nervus nasopalatinus. One bundle of the sphenopalatine 

 nerves passes obliquely forward and medially across the inferior 

 surface of the anterior part of the sphenopalatine ganglion, 

 finally reaching the medial border of the anterior end of the gan- 

 glion (fig. 5, bundle a). In this position it receives a large contri- 

 bution of fine fibers from the ganglion and becomes the nasopala- 



Fig. 6 Transverse section through the nervus maxillaris and the anterior 

 extremity of the ganglion sphenopalatinum showing the origin of the nervus naso- 

 palatinus and two of the orbital branches of the ganglion. 600 n anterior to 

 figure 5. X 90. 



tine nerve (fig. 6). The fibers from the ganglion form a little 

 more than half of this nerve. 



From its origin the nasopalatine nerve extends medially along 

 the posterior wall of the inferior meatus of the nose to reach the 

 posterior and ventral part of the septum. From this point its 

 course is anterior along the ventral part of the septum. Through- 



