Nervous system

Nervous system

The organ system which, along with the endocrine system, correlates the adjustments and reactions of the organism to its internal and external enviroment.

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Nervous system

Frontal nerve

Anatomy; Nervous system

The frontal nerve is the largest branch of the ophthalmic, and may be regarded, both from its size and direction, as the continuation of the nerve.

Deep branch of the radial nerve

Anatomy; Nervous system

The deep branch of the radial nerve winds to the back of the forearm around the lateral side of the radius between the two planes of fibres of the Supinator, and is prolonged downward between the ...

Cochlear nerve

Anatomy; Nervous system

The cochlear nerve (also auditory or acoustic nerve) is a nerve in the head that carries signals from the cochlea of the inner ear to the brain. It is part of the vestibulocochlear nerve, the 8th ...

Common palmar digital nerves of median nerve

In the palm of the hand the median nerve is covered by the skin and the palmar aponeurosis, and rests on the tendons of the Flexor muscles. Immediately after emerging from under the transverse carpal ...

Digastric branch of facial nerve

Anatomy; Nervous system

The digastric branch of facial nerve arises close to the stylomastoid foramen, and divides into several filaments, which supply the posterior belly of the Digastricus; one of these filaments joins ...

Common fibular nerve

Anatomy; Nervous system

The common fibular nerve (common peroneal nerve; external popliteal nerve; peroneal nerve; lateral popliteal nerve), about one-half the size of the tibial nerve, is derived from the dorsal branches ...

Deep temporal nerves

Anatomy; Nervous system

The deep temporal nerves, branches of the mandibular division of the trigeminal nerve, are two in number, anterior and posterior. They pass above the upper border of the pterygoideus externus and ...