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Branchial motor
Visceral motor
Special sensory
General sensory
Peripheral lesions| Cranial Nerve VII - Facial Nerve | Page 15 of 28 |
Origin and Central Course
The visceral motor component originates from a diffuse collection of cell bodies in the caudal pons just below the facial nucleus known as the superior salivatory nucleus.
Fibers course so as to exit the ventrolateral aspect of the brainstem at the caudal border of the pons as part of the nervus intermedius portion of CN VII. these fibers do not loop around the abducens nucleus.
The nervus intermedius exits the brainstem just lateral to the branchial motor component.
