auriculotemporal nerve

noun

The branch of the mandibular nerve that supplies sensory fibers to the skin of the external ear and temporal region and autonomic fibers from the otic ganglion to the parotid gland.

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nounauriculotemporal nerve (plural auriculotemporal nerves)

plural auriculotemporal nerves

  1. anatomyThe branch of the mandibular nerve that supplies sensory fibers to the skin of the external ear and temporal region and autonomic fibers from the otic ganglion to the parotid gland.
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