Assertion: facial nerve | /r/CapableOf | give off several branches
Facets:
value: along its course
type: LOCATION
value: along the way
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: The facial nerve (AKA the seventh cranial nerve, or CN 7, or CN VII) gives off several branches.
text: If hearing or taste are affected or decreased tear production is present in the eye, then the facial nerve is injured in the intra temporal course where it gives off branches involved in hearing and taste.
text: Along the way, it gives off three branches.
text: In addition to supplying the muscles of facial expression, the facial nerve gives off this branch that supplies the posterior belly of the digastric, and the stylohyoid muscle.
text: Continuing anteriorly, the facial nerve then gives off two branches:
text: Along its course, the facial nerve gives off several branches.
text: During its course through the temporal none the facial nerve gives off several branches: to the tear gland, to the stapes muscle, to the tongue and saliva glands and to the ear canal.
text: Marked as cranial nerve 7 (VII), the facial nerve exits the brain, giving off branches along its way to the parotid gland where it divides into five smaller nerves.
text: On its way through the temporal bone the facial nerve gives off three branches, the greater petrosal nerve which is an autonomic branch, a branch in the middle ear to the stapedius muscle, and a special branch, the chorda tympani, represented by by this wire.