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Distribution. From its superficial origin the trunk of the nerve 

 passes into the internal auditory meatus beside the auditory nerve. 

 After passing forward and outward for a short distance through the 

 bone above and between the cochlea and vestibule, the nerve makes 



FIG. 252. SUPERFICIAL BRANCHES OF THE FACIAL AND THE FIFTH. i. Trunk of the 

 facial. 2. Posterior auricular nerve. 3. Branch which it receives from the 

 cervical plexus. 4. Occipital branch. 5, 6. Branches to the muscles of the ear. 

 7. Digastric branches. 8. Branch to the stylo-hyoid muscle. 9. Superior ter- 

 minal branch. 10. Temporal branches, n. Frontal branches. 12. Branches 

 to the orbicularis palpebrarum. 13. Nasal or suborbital branches. 14. Buccal 

 branches. 15. Inferior terminal branch. 16. Mental branches. 17. Cervical 

 branches. 18. Superficial temporal nerve (branch of the fifth). 19, 20. Frontal 

 nerves (branches of the fifth). 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27. Branches of the fifth. 

 28, 29, 30, 31, 32. Branches of the cervical nerves. (Hirschfeld.) 



a sharp bend, forming the genu facialis, turns backward and enters 

 the aqueduct pf pallopins. the general course of which it follows as 

 fa^asjhe_sty^lo : mastoid^foramn. After emerging from this foramen 

 tne nerve passes' 'downward and forward as far as the parotid gland, 



