Ascending pharyngeal artery

Ascending pharyngeal artery
Superficial dissection of the right side of the neck, showing the carotid and subclavian arteries.
Details
PrecursorAortic arch 2
SourceExternal carotid artery
SuppliesPharynx
Identifiers
Latinarteria pharyngea ascendens
TA98A12.2.05.010
TA24378
FMA49497
Anatomical terminology

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).[1]

  1. ^ Standring, Susan (2020). Gray's Anatomy: The Anatomical Basis of Clinical Practice (42th ed.). New York. p. 585. ISBN 978-0-7020-7707-4. OCLC 1201341621.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)