What is ascending palatine?
The ascending palatine artery is a branch of the facial artery, diverging soon after the facial artery branches off the ECA. It runs along the superior pharyngeal constrictor muscle and travels between the styloglossus and stylopharyngeus muscles.
What is the palatine artery?
The greater palatine artery is a branch of the descending palatine artery (a terminal branch of the maxillary artery) and contributes to the blood supply of the hard palate and nasal septum.
Where is the palatine artery?
The ascending palatine artery most commonly originates from the facial artery and runs alongside the pharynx and passes between the styloglossus and the stylopharyngeus muscles. Its location is with the levator veli palatini where it divides into two branches to supply the soft palate and palatine glands.
What is pharyngeal artery?
The ascending pharyngeal artery is an artery in the neck that supplies the pharynx, developing from the proximal part of the embryonic second aortic arch.
Where does the lesser palatine artery come from?
The lesser palatine artery is a small branch of the descending palatine artery (branch of the 3rd part of the maxillary artery). The vessel supplies the soft palate with small branches to the palatine tonsils 1,2.
What is the transverse facial artery?
The transverse facial artery (TFA) is found in the lateral face and supplies the parotid gland and duct, facial nerve, facial muscles, and skin. The TFA originated from the superficial temporal artery at or above the level of crossing by the temporofacial trunk of the facial nerve in the parotid gland (57.6%).
What is anterior ethmoid artery?
The anterior ethmoid artery is a branch of the ophthalmic artery. It supplies the anterior and middle ethmoidal sinuses, frontal sinus, the lateral nasal wall and the nasal septum (see nasal cavity).
Where do the palatine nerves come from?
The greater and lesser palatine nerves originate from the inferior surface of pterygopalatine ganglion and pass through the palatine canal.
Where does the palatine descending artery begin?
It descends through the greater palatine canal with the greater and lesser palatine branches of the pterygopalatine ganglion, and, emerging from the greater palatine foramen, runs forward in a groove on the medial side of the alveolar border of the hard palate to the incisive canal; the terminal branch of the artery …
Where is the pharyngeal artery?
neck
The ascending pharyngeal artery is the smallest branch of the external carotid artery. It is long, thin, and located deeply in the neck under other branches of the external carotid artery, and also under the stylopharyngeus. The internal carotid artery is a terminal branch of the common carotid artery.