chorda tympani (English, noun)
expansion: chorda tympani (plural chordae tympanorum)
Senses:
topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: A branch of the facial nerve that traverses the middle ear cavity and the infratemporal fossa and supplies autonomic fibers to the sublingual and submandibular glands and sensory fibers to the anterior part of the tongue.
Forms:
form: chordae tympanorum
tags: plural