innervates branching part of mandibular nerve nerve tongue lingual nerve trigeminal nerve lingual branch MA:0001102 SCTID:280260006 BAMS:5lg EMAPA:19168 trigeminal V nerve lingual branch lingual branch of trigeminal nerve Wikipedia:Lingual_nerve GAID:835 The lingual nerve is a branch of the mandibular nerve (CN V3), itself a branch of the trigeminal nerve, which supplies sensory innervation to the tongue. It also carries fibers from the facial nerve, which return taste information from the anterior two thirds of the tongue. UBERON:0003721 FMA:53218 MESH:D008036 nerve of head region