Medial pterygoid nerve
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The medial pterygoid nerve (or internal pterygoid nerve) is a nerve of the head. It is a branch of the mandibular nerve (CN V3). It supplies the medial pterygoid muscle, the tensor veli palatini muscle, and the tensor tympani muscle.
| Medial pterygoid nerve | |
|---|---|
 Mandibular division of the trigeminus nerve. (Internal pterygoid nerve visible but not labeled.) | |
 Mandibular division of trifacial nerve, seen from the middle line. Nerve to medial pterygoid labeled at bottom. | |
| Details | |
| From | Mandibular nerve |
| Innervates | Medial pterygoid, tensor veli palatini, tensor tympani |
| Identifiers | |
| Latin | Nervus pterygoideus internus nervus pterygoideus medialis |
| TA98 | A14.2.01.066 |
| TA2 | 6250 |
| FMA | 53056 |
| Anatomical terms of neuroanatomy | |