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  2. External carotid artery - Wikipedia

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    When external carotid artery ascends the neck, it lies more lateral than internal carotid artery. [2] The external carotid artery is covered by the skin, superficial fascia, platysma muscle, deep fascia, and anterior margin of the sternocleidomastoid; it is crossed by the hypoglossal nerve, by the lingual, ranine, common facial, and superior ...

  3. List of arteries of the human body - Wikipedia

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    The common carotid artery. The external carotid 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 ...

  4. Arterial tree - Wikipedia

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    2.2.2 external carotid artery. 2.3 Left subclavian artery (directly from arch of aorta on left) ... anterior meningeal artery; nasal branches; superior palpebral arch;

  5. Common carotid artery - Wikipedia

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    At approximately the level of the fourth cervical vertebra, the common carotid artery splits ("bifurcates" in literature) into an internal carotid artery (ICA) and an external carotid artery (ECA). While both branches travel upward, the internal carotid takes a deeper (more internal) path, eventually travelling up into the skull to supply the ...

  6. Carotid body - Wikipedia

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    The carotid body is a small cluster of peripheral chemoreceptor cells and supporting sustentacular cells situated at the bifurcation of each common carotid artery in its tunica externa. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The carotid body detects changes in the composition of arterial blood flowing through it, mainly the partial pressure of arterial oxygen , but also ...

  7. Facial artery - Wikipedia

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    The facial artery arises in the carotid triangle from the external carotid artery, [1] [2] a little above the lingual artery, and sheltered by the ramus of the mandible.It passes obliquely up beneath the digastric and stylohyoid muscles, over which it arches to enter a groove on the posterior surface of the submandibular gland.

  8. Maxillary artery - Wikipedia

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    The maxillary artery, the larger of the two terminal branches of the external carotid artery, arises behind the neck of the mandible, and is at first imbedded in the substance of the parotid gland; it passes forward between the ramus of the mandible and the sphenomandibular ligament, and then runs, either superficial or deep to the lateral pterygoid muscle, to the pterygopalatine fossa.

  9. Kiesselbach's plexus - Wikipedia

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    the greater palatine artery, a branch of the maxillary artery, a branch of the external carotid artery. [1] [2] a septal branch of the superior labial artery, a branch of the facial artery, a branch of the external carotid artery. [1] [2] a posterior ethmoidal artery, a branch of the ophthalmic artery, a branch of the internal carotid artery. [1]