facial nerve in dogs

Cranial nerve that branches into the supraorbital (supplying the skin of the eye region and the lateral line organs here), the palatine (to the roof of the buccal cavity), and the hyomandibular (dividing into the jugular and mental branches). Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the facial nerve is

Cranial nerve that branches into the supraorbital (supplying the skin of the eye region and the lateral line organs here), the palatine (to the roof of the buccal cavity), and the hyomandibular (dividing into the jugular and mental branches). The atlas records it as a nerve at the organ scale in the dog.

Where the facial nerve is

It sits in the head, within the nervous system. Only the region is known. The position shown is somewhere plausible inside it and nothing more.

What the facial nerve connects to

The atlas records 17 typed relationships for it, across 6 kinds of connection. part of gustatory system.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the facial nerve. Only a minority of structures carry those edges here, so an empty answer means nothing has been recorded — not that there is nothing to record.

Also called

Also recorded as 7n, branchiomeric cranial nerve, face nerve, facial VII, facial VII nerve and facial nerve [VII], and 10 more. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001647, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: gustatory system.
• A kind of: anatomical structure and cranial nerve.
• Innervates: facial muscle, buccinator muscle, depressor labii inferioris, digastric muscle group, levator auris longus muscle and levator labii superioris, and 3 more.
• branching part of: chorda tympani branch of facial nerve and nerve innervating pinna.
• contains: chorda tympani branch of facial nerve and nerve innervating pinna.
• transports: internal acoustic meatus.

Questions

Where is the facial nerve?

It sits in the head, within the nervous system. Only the region is known. The position shown is somewhere plausible inside it and nothing more.

What does the facial nerve connect to?

Part of: gustatory system.

Is the facial nerve the same in other species?

This page describes the dog. The human record of the same structure sits beside it on /compare, over one shared model rather than two atlases built separately.