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=== Origin === From the trigeminal ganglion, a single, large sensory root enters the [[brainstem]] at the level of the [[pons]]. Immediately adjacent to the sensory root, a smaller motor root emerges from the pons<ref name="pmid29354310">{{cite journal |vauthors=Kontzialis M, Kocak M |date=2017 |title=Imaging evaluation of trigeminal neuralgia |journal=Journal of Istanbul University Faculty of Dentistry |volume=51 |issue=3 Suppl 1 |pages=S62βS68 |doi=10.17096/jiufd.27242 |pmc=5750829 |pmid=29354310}}</ref> slightly rostrally and medially to the sensory root.'''<ref name=":022">{{Cite book |last=Sinnatamby |first=Chummy S. |title=Last's Anatomy |publisher= Elsevier Australia|year=2011 |isbn=978-0-7295-3752-0 |edition=12th |pages=478}}</ref>''' Motor fibers pass through the trigeminal ganglion without synapsing on their way to peripheral muscles, their cell bodies being located in the nucleus of the fifth nerve, deep within the pons.
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