

THE CERVICAL NERVES 



fascia, ascends upon that muscle beneath the Platysma to the parotid gland, where 

 it divides into an anterior and a posterior branch. 



The anterior branch (ramus anterior; facial branch] is distributed to the skin of 

 the face over the parotid gland, and communicates in the substance of the gland 

 with the facial nerve. 



Termination 

 of supratroclilear 

 of infratrochlear 

 of nasociliary 





FIG. 805. The nerves of the scalp, face, and side or neck. 



The posterior branch (ramus posterior; mastoid branch) supplies the skin over the 

 mastoid process and on the back of the auricula, except at its upper part; a filament 

 pierces the auricula to reach its lateral surface, where it is distributed to the lobule 

 and lower part of the concha. The posterior branch communicates with the smaller 

 occipital, the auricular branch of the vagus, and the posterior auricular branch 

 of the facial. 



The Cutaneous Cervical (n. cutaneus colli; superficial or transverse cervical nerve) 

 arises from the second and third cervical nerves, turns around the posterior border 

 of the Sternocleidomastoideus about its middle, and, passing obliquely forward 

 beneath the external jugular vein to the anterior border of the muscle, it perforates 

 the deep cervical fascia, and divides beneath the Platysma into ascending and 

 descending branches, which are distributed to the antero-lateral parts of the neck. 



The ascending branches (rami superiores) pass upward to the submaxillary region, 



