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Definitions of geniculate in various dictionaries:
adj - bent at a sharp angle
Bent abruptly, as a knee.
Having kneelike joints; able to bend at an abrupt angle.
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| bent at a sharp angle |
| Bent at a sharp angle. |
| Bent abruptly, as a knee. |
| Having kneelike joints able to bend at an abrupt angle. |
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The geniculate ganglion (from Latin genu, for "knee") is an L-shaped collection of fibers and pseudo-unipolar sensory neurons of the facial nerve located in the facial canal of the head. It receives fibers from the motor, sensory, and parasympathetic components of the facial nerve and sends fibers that will innervate the lacrimal glands, submandibular glands, sublingual glands, tongue, palate, pharynx, external auditory meatus, stapedius, posterior belly of the digastric muscle, stylohyoid muscle, and muscles of facial expression. * The geniculate ganglion contains special sensory neuronal cell bodies for taste, from fibers coming up from the tongue through the chorda tympani and from fibers coming up from the roof of the palate through the greater petrosal nerve. Sensory and parasympathetic inputs are carried into the geniculate ganglion via the nervus intermedius. Motor fibers are carried via the facial nerve proper. The greater petrosal nerve, which carries preganglionic parasympathet |