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Brain: Spinal trigeminal nucleus

The cranial nerve nuclei schematically represented; dorsal view. Motor nuclei in red; sensory in blue. (Trigeminal nerve nuclei are at "V".)
Latin	nucleus spinalis nervi trigemini
Gray's	subject #187 787
NeuroNames	ancil-1015266456
MeSH	Trigeminal+Nucleus,+Spinal

The spinal trigeminal nucleus is a nucleus in the medulla that receives information about deep/crude touch, pain, and temperature from the ipsilateral face. The facial, glossopharyngeal, and vagus nerves also convey pain information from their areas to the spinal trigeminal nucleus.^[1]

References

Ventral/
(base)

Surface	Basilar sulcus

MCP	Pontocerebellar fibers · Pontine nuclei

Motor/descending	Corticospinal tract · Corticobulbar tract · Corticopontine fibers

Dorsal/
(tegmentum)

Cranial nuclei	afferent: GSA: Principal V/Spinal V · VIII-c (Dorsal, Anterior)/VIII-v (Lateral, Superior, Medial, Inferior) efferent: SVE: Motor V · VII · GSE: VI · GVE: VII: Superior salivary nucleus

MLF, III, IV and VI	Vestibulo-oculomotor fibers · Vestibulospinal tract (Medial vestibulospinal tract, Lateral vestibulospinal tract)

Sensory/ascending	Trapezoid body/VIII · Superior olivary nucleus · Trigeminal lemniscus (Dorsal trigeminal tract, Ventral trigeminal tract) · Medial lemniscus

ICP	Vestibulocerebellar tract

Motor/descending	Apneustic center · Pneumotaxic center (Medial parabrachial nucleus) · Lateral parabrachial nucleus

Surface	Cerebellopontine angle · Superior medullary velum

Raphe/
reticular

no significant branches

no significant branches

near origin	nervus intermedius • geniculate

inside facial canal	greater petrosal (pterygopalatine ganglion) · nerve to the stapedius · chorda tympani (lingual nerve, submandibular ganglion)

at stylomastoid foramen	posterior auricular · suprahyoid (digastric, stylohyoid) · parotid plexus (temporal, zygomatic, buccal, mandibular, cervical)

before jugular fossa	ganglia (superior, inferior)

after jugular fossa	tympanic (tympanic plexus, lesser petrosal, otic ganglion) • stylopharyngeal branch • pharyngeal branches • tonsillar branches • lingual branches • carotid sinus

before jugular fossa	ganglia (superior, inferior)

after jugular fossa	meningeal branch · auricular branch

neck	pharyngeal branch (pharyngeal plexus) · superior laryngeal (external, internal) · recurrent laryngeal (inferior) · superior cervical cardiac

thorax	inferior cardiac · pulmonary · vagal trunks (anterior, posterior)

abdomen	celiac · renal · hepatic · anterior gastric · posterior gastric

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