Assertion: facial nerve's branch | /r/HasProperty | the chorda tympani
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text: En route through the temporal bone, the facial nerve gives off a small branch containing SE motor fibers that supply the stapedius muscle and a larger branch, the chorda tympani (Fig. 14.14).
text: Another branch of the facial nerve, the chorda tympani, directly joins the lingual nerve, a division of the mandibular nerve.
text: These fibres are carried within a branch of the facial nerve, the chorda tympani.
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.