Supraorbital nerve

Nerve: Supraorbital nerve
Nerves of the orbit. Seen from above. (Supraorbital nerve labeled at upper right.)
The tarsi and their ligaments. Right eye; front view. (Supraorbital nerve labeled at upper right.)
Latin	nervus supraorbitalis
Gray's	subject #200 888
Innervates	frontal sinus
From	ophthalmic division, frontal nerve

The supraorbital nerve is a terminal branch of the frontal nerve.

It passes through the supraorbital foramen, and gives off, in this situation, palpebral filaments to the upper eyelid. Additionally it supplies the conjunctiva of the eye, the frontal sinus and the skin from the forehead extending back to the middle of the scalp.

Branches

It then ascends upon the forehead, and ends in two branches, a medial and a lateral, which supply the integument of the scalp, reaching nearly as far back as the lambdoidal suture; they are at first situated beneath the Frontalis:

• the medial branch perforates the muscle.
• the lateral branch perforates the galea aponeurotica.

Both branches supply small twigs to the pericranium.

See also

• Supra-orbital artery
• Supraorbital vein

Additional images

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  Sensory areas of the head, showing the general distribution of the three divisions of the fifth nerve.

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  The nerves of the scalp, face, and side of neck.

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  Outline of side of face, showing chief surface markings.

External links

• Knize D (1995). "A study of the supraorbital nerve". Plast Reconstr Surg 96 (3): 564–9. doi:10.1097/00006534-199509000-00007. PMID 7638280. 
• MedEd at Loyola GrossAnatomy/h_n/cn/cn1/cnb1.htm
• lesson3 at The Anatomy Lesson by Wesley Norman (Georgetown University) (orbit2)
• cranialnerves at The Anatomy Lesson by Wesley Norman (Georgetown University) (V)
• http://www.dartmouth.edu/~humananatomy/figures/chapter_47/47-2.HTM

This article was originally based on an entry from a public domain edition of Gray's Anatomy. As such, some of the information contained within it may be outdated.