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Pterygoid branches of maxillary artery
| Artery: Pterygoid branches of maxillary artery |
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| Plan of branches of internal maxillary artery. (Pterygoid labeled at center top.) |
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| Plan of branches of internal maxillary artery. (Visible but not labeled.) |
| Latin |
rami pterygoidei arteriae maxillaris |
| Gray's |
subject #144 561 |
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maxillary artery |
| Dorlands/Elsevier |
r_02/12691840 |
The pterygoid branches of the maxillary artery, irregular in their number and origin, supply the lateral pterygoid muscle and medial pterygoid muscle.
This article was originally based on an entry from a public domain edition of Gray's Anatomy. As such, some of the information contained herein may be outdated. Please edit the article if this is the case, and feel free to remove this notice when it is no longer relevant.
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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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