context: The tympanic nerve or tympanic nerve is the branch of the facial nerve, arising from the papillae of taste in the anterior part of the tongue and passing through the middle ear and transmitting sense of taste messages to the brain. [1] [2] [3] The tympanic cord nerve connects to the facial nerve in the facial canal near its exit from the papillary (sternal) needle hole.
question: What is the tympanic nerve?
answers.text: branch of the facial nerve, arising from the papillae of taste in the anterior part of the tongue and passing through the middle ear and transmitting sense of taste messages to the brain