Dissection showing origins of right ocular muscles, and nerves entering by the superior orbital fissure.
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| colspan="2" |Nerves of the orbit, and the ciliary ganglion. Side view.
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|Latin
|colspan="2"|Nervus lacrimalis
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|Innervates
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|colspan="2"|Ophthalmic nerve
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|MeSH
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The lacrimal nerve is the smallest of the three branches of the ophthalmic.
It sometimes receives a filament from the trochlear nerve, but this is possibly derived from the branch which goes from the ophthalmic to the trochlear nerve.
The lacrimal nerve is occasionally absent, and its place is then taken by the zygomaticotemporal branch of the maxillary nerve. Sometimes the latter branch is absent, and a continuation of the lacrimal nerve is substituted for it.
