Special visceral afferent fiber
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Special visceral afferent
)Special visceral afferent fibers (SVA) are
cranial nerves containing SVA fibers are the facial nerve (VII), the glossopharyngeal nerve (IX), and the vagus nerve (X).[2] The facial nerve receives taste from the anterior 2/3 of the tongue; the glossopharyngeal from the posterior 1/3, and the vagus nerve from the epiglottis.[3] The sensory processes, using their primary cell bodies from the inferior ganglion, send projections to the medulla, from which they travel in the tractus solitarius, later terminating at the rostral nucleus solitarius.[4]
See also
- General somatic afferent fiber (GSA)
- General visceral afferent fiber (GVA)
- Special somatic afferent fiber(SSA)
References
- ^ cranialnerves at The Anatomy Lesson by Wesley Norman (Georgetown University)
- ISBN 978-0-7020-5230-9.
- ^ Drake et al. (2010), Gray's Anatomy for Students, 2nd Ed., Churchill Livingstone.
- ^ Bhatnagar C. Subhash. Neuroscience for the study of communicative disorders. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2002