Erika Anne B.

Tatel

BSCOS-NSTEM2
PARTS AND FUNCTIONS OF THE TRIGEMINAL FACTOR

OPTHALMIC TERRITOR (sensory) : Carries sensory information from the scalp and

forehead, the upper eyelid, the conjunctiva and cornea of the eye, the nose (including

the tip of the nose, except alae nasi), the nasal mucosa, the frontal sinuses, and parts of

the meninges (the dura and blood vessels).

MAXILLARY TERRITORY (sensory): The second branch of the trigeminal nerve, which

originates embryologically from the first pharyngeal arch. Its primary function is sensory

supply to the mid-third of the face.

MANDIBULAR TERRITORY (sensory and motor): Supplies both motor and sensory

information, which means it's linked to movement and senses. One of its most essential

functions is controlling the movements of the muscles that allow you to chew.

CERVICAL NERVE: Provide functional control and sensation to different parts of the body

based on the spinal level where they branch out from the spinal cord.

SUPERFICIAL CERVICAL PLEXUS: To provide skeletal muscle control of the neck and

upper torso as well as providing cutaneous sensation to parts of the occiput, neck, and

shoulder.
PARTS AND FUNCTIONS OF THE TRIGEMINAL FACTOR

MESENCEPHALIC NUCLEUS: A sickle-shaped mesencephalic tract descends to the

trigeminal nerve motor nucleus and conveys impulses that control mastication and bite

force and also facilitate monosynaptic jaw jerk reflexes.

MOTOR NUCLES: The nucleus supplies the four large muscles of mastication (temporalis,

masseter, medial pterygoid, and lateral pterygoid) and four smaller muscles derived from

the mandibular branchial arch (tensor tympani, tensor palati, anterior belly of digastric,

and mylohyoid).

MAIN SENSORY NUCLEUS: It receives information about discriminative sensation and

light touch of the face as well as conscious proprioception of the jaw via first order

neurons of CN V.

SPINAL TRIGEMINAL: To carry temperature, deep or crude touch, and pain from the

ipsilateral portion of the face to the ventral posteromedial nucleus of the contralateral

thalamus via the anterior trigeminothalamic tract.