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great auricular nerve
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great auricular nerve (grt)
n.
A nerve arising from the second and third cervical nerves and supplying the skin of part of the ear, the adjacent portion of the scalp, cheek, and angle of the jaw.
great auricular nerve
Etymology: AS, large; L, auricula, little ear, nervus, nerve
one of a pair of cutaneous branches of the cervical plexus, arising from the second and the third cervical nerves. It is distributed to the skin of the face and the skin of the mastoid process. It also communicates with the lesser occipital nerve, the auricular branch of the vagus nerve, and the posterior auricular branch of the facial nerve.


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The involved facial nerve was resected and cable-grafted with the right great auricular nerve.
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During the course of the dissection, the frontal branch of the nerve was transected, and a graft from the ipsilateral great auricular nerve was used to repair it.
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