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The facial nerve contains a variety of different types of fibres including somatic sensory fibres, which carry sensation from the skin of the outer ear and its immediate vicinity, visceral sensory fibres, which carry taste from the anterior two-thirds of the tongue and from the palate, visceral motor fibres, which supply secretomotor function in the submandibular and sub-lingual salivary glands, and branchial motor fibres, which innervate the muscles of facial expression and the stapedius (Fig. 47.1). These latter fibres comprise the vast majority of the facial nerve fibres.
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(2007). The Facial Nerve. In: Scadding, G., Bull, P., Graham, J. (eds) Pediatric ENT. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-33039-4_47
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