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External nasal nerve

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Innervates
  
nose

TA
  
A14.2.01.034

Dorlands /Elsevier
  
r_02/12691092

FMA
  
52688

External nasal nerve

From
  
ophthalmic nerve (anterior ethmoidal nerve)

Latin
  
Rami nasales externi nervi infraorbitalis

The external nasal nerve (or external nasal branches) are terminal branches of the anterior ethmoidal nerves (from the ophthalmic division of the trigeminal nerve), and provide sensory innervation to the skin of the lower half of the nose and of the septum mobile nasi.

References

External nasal nerve Wikipedia