Special visceral efferent fibers (SVE) are the efferent nerve fibers that provide motor innervation to the muscles of the pharyngeal arches in humans, and the branchial arches in fish.[1]
Some sources prefer the term "branchiomotor"[2] or "branchial efferent".[3]
The only nerves containing SVE fibers are cranial nerves: the trigeminal nerve (V), the facial nerve (VII), the glossopharyngeal nerve (IX), the vagus nerve (X) and the accessory nerve (XI).[4]
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- ^ cranialnerves at The Anatomy Lesson by Wesley Norman (Georgetown University)
- ^ "branchiomotor nuclei". TheFreeDictionary.com.
- ^ "EMBRYO: RHOMBENCEPHALON". Archived from the original on 2012-02-08.
- ^ Drake et al. (2010), Gray's Anatomy for Students, 2nd Ed., Churchill Livingstone.
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