The superior laryngeal nerve is a branch of the vagus nerve. It arises from the middle of the ganglion nodosum and in its course receives a branch from the superior cervical ganglion of the sympathetic.
It descends, by the side of the pharynx, behind the internal carotid artery, and divides into two branches:
- external laryngeal nerve
- internal laryngeal nerve
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