Aerial supply of facial nerve is all except:: (A) Ascending pharyngeal aery, (B) Middle meningeal aery, (C) Greater palatine aery, (D) Stylomastoid branch of occipital aery
Answer is C. Facial nerve in facial canal is supplied by: Superficial petrosal branch of middle meningeal aery, stylomastoid branch of posterior auricular or occipital aeries. In extracranial course it is supplied by: Stylomastoid branches of posterior auricular or occipital aeries, superficial temporal, transverse facial and tympanic branch of ascending pharyngeal aery.