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Pontine arteries
| Artery: Pontine arteries |
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| Diagram of the arterial circulation at the base of the brain. (Pontine labeled at center left.) |
| Latin |
arteriae pontis |
| Gray's |
subject #148 580 |
| Supplies |
pons |
| Source |
basilar artery |
| Dorlands/Elsevier |
a_61/12155530 |
The pontine arteries are a number of small vessels which come off at right angles from either side of the basilar artery and supply the pons and adjacent parts of the brain.
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List of arteries of head and neck |
| Anterior: CC/EC |
superior thyroid (superior laryngeal) - lingual (sublingual)
facial: cervical branches (ascending palatine, tonsillar, submental, glandular) - facial branches (inferior labial, superior labial, lateral nasal, angular)
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| Posterior and ascending: CC/EC |
occipital - posterior auricular (stylomastoid) - ascending pharyngeal (meningeal branches) |
| Terminal, superficial temporal: CC/EC |
transverse facial - middle temporal (zygomaticoörbital) - anterior auricular - frontal - parietal
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| Terminal, maxillary: CC/EC |
1st part: anterior tympanic - deep auricular - middle meningeal (superior tympanic) - accessory meningeal - inferior alveolar (mylohyoid)
2nd part: deep temporal - pterygoid branches - masseteric - buccal
3rd part: posterior superior alveolar - infraorbital (anterior superior alveolar) - descending palatine - artery of the pterygoid canal - sphenopalatine |
| portions #1 and 2: CC/IC |
cervical portion (carotid sinus) - petrous portion (Vidian, caroticotympanic) |
| cavernous portion/ophthalmic: CC/IC |
orbital group: lacrimal (lateral palpebral) - supraorbital - posterior ethmoidal - anterior ethmoidal - medial palpebral - supratrochlear - dorsal nasal
ocular group: central retinal - ciliary (short posterior, long posterior, anterior) - superior hypophysial - inferior hypophysial
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| cerebral portion: CC/IC |
ACA - anterior communicating - MCA (anterolateral central) - posterior communicating - anterior choroidal - circle of Willis |
| vertebral artery: SC |
meningeal branches - posterior spinal - anterior spinal - PICA - basilar (pontine, labyrinthine, AICA, SCA, PCA) |
| thyrocervical trunk: SC |
inferior thyroid (inferior laryngeal, tracheal, esophageal, ascending cervical) - suprascapular - transverse cervical - dorsal scapular |
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This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Pontine_arteries". A list of authors is available in Wikipedia.
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