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Anterior choroidal artery; Anterior ciliary arteries; Anterior communicating artery; Anterior ethmoidal artery; Anterior inferior cerebellar artery; Anterior spinal artery; Anterior superior alveolar artery; Anterior tympanic artery; Anterolateral central arteries; Artery of Percheron; Artery of the pterygoid canal; Ascending palatine artery ...
The triangles of the neck; The internal carotid artery; The arteries of the brain; The arteries of the upper extremity The subclavian artery; The axilla. The axillary artery; The brachial artery; The radial artery; The ulnar artery; The arteries of the trunk The descending aorta. The thoracic aorta; The abdominal aorta; The common iliac ...
The external carotid artery is the major artery of the head and upper neck. It arises from the common carotid artery . It terminates by splitting into the superficial temporal and maxillary artery within the parotid gland .
The internal carotid artery is an artery in the neck which supplies the anterior and middle cerebral circulation. [ 1 ] In human anatomy, the internal and external carotid arise from the common carotid artery , where it bifurcates at cervical vertebrae C3 or C4.
The vertebral arteries are major arteries of the neck. Typically, the vertebral arteries originate from the subclavian arteries . Each vessel courses superiorly along each side of the neck, merging within the skull to form the single, midline basilar artery .
In other specimens, the mastoid artery is a branch of the occipital artery, rather than the auricular branch. Meningeal branch: supplies the dura mater in the posterior cranial fossa; Descending branches: This is the largest branch. It descends on the posterior aspect of the neck, and divides into a superficial and deep portion.
In at least one reported case, the artery was only 4 cm in length and divided at the root of the neck. Very rarely, the common carotid artery ascends in the neck without any subdivision, either the external or the internal carotid being absent; and in a few cases the common carotid has itself been found to be absent, the external and internal ...
The ascending pharyngeal artery is an artery of the neck that supplies the pharynx. Its named branches are the inferior tympanic artery , pharyngeal artery, and posterior meningeal artery . inferior tympanic artery , and the meningeal branches (including the posterior meningeal artery ).