Inferior Palpebral Nerve

The Inferior Palpebral Branches (palpebral branches) ascend behind the Orbicularis oculi.

They supply the skin and conjunctiva of the lower eyelid, joining at the lateral angle of the orbit with the facial and zygomaticofacial nerves.

This article incorporates text from a public domain edition of Gray's Anatomy.

The cranial nerves: trigeminal nerve
ophthalmic
(V1)

frontal: supratrochlear · supraorbital (lateral branch, medial branch)

nasociliary: long ciliary · infratrochlear · posterior ethmoidal · anterior ethmoidal (external nasal, internal nasal) · sensory root of ciliary ganglion (ciliary ganglion)

lacrimal
maxillary
(V2)
in meninges middle meningeal
in pterygopalatine
fossa 		zygomatic (zygomaticotemporal, zygomaticofacial) · pterygopalatine (pterygopalatine ganglion see below for details) · posterior superior alveolar
in infraorbital canal infraorbital nerve: superior alveolar (middle, anterior) · internal nasal branches
on face inferior palpebral · external nasal · superior labial (infraorbital plexus)
mandibular
(V3)
in meninges meningeal
anterior to muscles of mastication (medial pterygoid/to tensor veli palatini, lateral pterygoid, masseteric, deep temporal) · buccal
posterior auriculotemporal (otic ganglion) · lingual (submandibular ganglion) · inferior alveolar (mylohyoid, mental)

M: PNS

anat (h/r/t/c/b/l/s/a)/phys (r)/devp/prot/nttr/nttm/ntrp

noco/auto/cong/tumr, sysi/epon, injr

proc, drug (N1B)

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