nervus in·ter·me·di·us -.int-ər-'mēd-ē-əs n the branch of the facial nerve that contains sensory and parasympathetic fibers and that supplies the anterior tongue and parts of the palate and fauces called also glossopalatine nerve, nerve of Wrisberg
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[TA] intermediate nerve: the smaller root of the facial nerve, lying between the main root and the vestibulocochlear nerve; it joins the main root at, or merges with, the geniculate ganglion at the geniculum of the facial nerve; branches, chorda tympani and greater petrosal nerve; distribution, lacrimal, nasal, palatine, submandibular, and sublingual glands, and anterior two-thirds of tongue; modality, parasympathetic and special sensory. Called also Wrisberg nerve. See also n. intermediofacialis.Medical dictionary. 2011.