The trigeminal ganglion is a bundle of nerve cell bodies that lies just near the jaw. Its job is to process sensory information like touch and temperature that is received around the face. Seen here is the trigeminal ganglion in an early developing zebrafish embryo.
Image by Fengzhu Xiong, Harvard Medical School.
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