facial nerve

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 human body.

Where the facial nerve is

It sits in the head, within the nervous system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What the facial nerve connects to

The atlas records 36 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 anguli oris muscle, depressor labii inferioris, depressor septi nasi and depressor supercilii, and 15 more.
• contains: chorda tympani branch of facial nerve, digastric branch of facial nerve, great auricular nerve, nerve to stylohyoid from facial nerve, posterior auricular nerve and vidian nerve.
• branching part of: chorda tympani branch of facial nerve, digastric branch of facial nerve, nerve to stylohyoid from facial nerve and vidian nerve.
• transports: facial nerve canal and internal acoustic meatus.

Questions

Where is the facial nerve?

It sits in the head, within the nervous system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What does the facial nerve connect to?

Part of: gustatory system.

Is the facial nerve the same in other species?

Leumas holds the same relationship vocabulary for every species it carries, so where another dataset records this structure you can put the two side by side on /compare.