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lesser occipital nerve

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lesser occipital nerve
n.
A nerve that arises from the second and third cervical nerves and supplies skin of the auricle of the ear and adjacent portion of scalp.
lesser occipital nerve
Etymology: AS, losian, to lose; L, occiput, back of the head, nervus, nerve
one of a pair of cutaneous branches of the cervical plexus, arising from the second cervical nerve and ascending along the side of the head behind the ear to supply the skin. It communicates with the posterior auricular branch of the facial nerve.


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the posterior auricular branch--which innervates the auricularis posterior, the cranially oriented muscles of the auricle, and the occipital muscles--communicates with the greater auricular nerve, the auricular branch of the vagus nerve, and the lesser occipital nerve (3)
Embryology by Selber, Jesse C. / Ear, Nose and Throat Journal
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