Short ciliary nerves

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Nerve: Short ciliary nerves
Plan of oculomotor nerve. (Short ciliary labeled at center right.)
Latin nervi ciliares breves
Gray's subject #200 889
From ciliary ganglion
Dorlands/Elsevier n_05/12565369

The branches of the ciliary ganglion are the short ciliary nerves.

These are delicate filaments, from six to ten in number, which arise from the forepart of the ganglion in two bundles connected with its superior and inferior angles; the lower bundle is the larger.

They run forward with the ciliary arteries in a wavy course, one set above and the other below the optic nerve, and are accompanied by the long ciliary nerves from the nasociliary.

They pierce the sclera at the back part of the bulb of the eye, pass forward in delicate grooves on the inner surface of the sclera, and are distributed to the Ciliaris muscle, iris, and cornea.

The short ciliary nerve contains parasympathetic and sympathetic nerve fibers. The parasympathetics arise from the Edinger-Westphal nucleus and synapse in the ciliary ganglion via the oculomotor nerve, the postganglionic parasympathetics leave the ciliary ganglion in the short ciliary nerve and supply the ciliary body and iris. Sympathetics are provided by the superior cervical ganglion.

Damage to the short ciliary nerve may result in loss of the pupillary light reflex, or mydriasis.

Sympathetic connections of the ciliary and superior cervical ganglia.

Pathways in the Ciliary Ganglion.

This article was originally based on an entry from a public domain edition of Gray's Anatomy. As such, some of the information contained herein may be outdated. Please edit the article if this is the case, and feel free to remove this notice when it is no longer relevant.

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The cranial nerves: trigeminal nerve
V1 - ophthalmic lacrimal • frontal (supratrochlear, supraorbital) • nasociliary (long root of ciliary, long ciliary, infratrochlear, posterior ethmoidal, anterior ethmoidal)
parasympathetic ganglion: ciliary ganglion (short ciliary)
V2 - maxillary middle meningeal

in the pterygopalatine fossa (zygomatic, zygomaticotemporal, zygomaticofacial, sphenopalatine, posterior superior alveolar)

in the infraorbital canal/infraorbital nerve (middle superior alveolar, anterior superior alveolar)

on the face (inferior palpebral, external nasal, superior labial, infraorbital plexus)

parasympathetic ganglion: pterygopalatine ganglion (deep petrosal, nerve of pterygoid canal) - branches of distribution (greater palatine, lesser palatine, nasopalatine, pharyngeal)
V3 - mandibular meningeal • medial pterygoid

anterior (masseteric, deep temporal, buccal, lateral pterygoid)

posterior (auriculotemporal, lingual, inferior alveolar, mylohyoid, mental)

parasympathetic ganglion: otic ganglion • submandibular ganglion
v • d • e
Nerves - autonomic nervous system (sympathetic nervous system/ganglion/trunks and parasympathetic nervous system/ganglion)
Head/cranial Ciliary ganglion (Short ciliary nerves) - Pterygopalatine ganglion (Nerve of pterygoid canal) - Submandibular ganglion - Otic ganglion
Neck/cervical paravertebral ganglia: Cervical ganglia (Superior, Middle, Inferior) - Stellate ganglion
prevertebral plexus: Cavernous plexus - Internal carotid
Chest/thorax paravertebral ganglia: Thoracic ganglia

prevertebral plexus: Cardiac plexus - Esophageal plexus - Pulmonary plexus - Thoracic aortic plexus

splanchnic nerves: Thoracic splanchnic nerves

cardiac nerves: Superior - Middle - Inferior
Abdomen/Lumbar paravertebral ganglia: Lumbar ganglia

prevertebral ganglia: Celiac ganglia (Aorticorenal) - Superior mesenteric ganglion - Inferior mesenteric ganglion

prevertebral plexus: Celiac plexus - (Hepatic, Splenic, Pancreatic) - aorticorenal (Abdominal aortic plexus, Renal/Suprarenal) - Superior mesenteric (Gastric) - Inferior mesenteric (Spermatic, Ovarian) - Superior hypogastric (hypogastric nerve, Superior rectal) - Inferior hypogastric (Vesical, Prostatic/Cavernous nerves of penis, Uterovaginal, Middle rectal)

splanchnic nerves: Lumbar splanchnic nerves

enteric nervous system: Meissner's plexus • Auerbach's plexus
Pelvis/sacral paravertebral ganglia: Sacral ganglia - Ganglion impar
splanchnic nerves: Pelvic splanchnic nerves - Sacral splanchnic nerves
All Rami communicans (White, Gray) - Preganglionic fibers - Postganglionic fibers


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