Ascending palatine artery

The ascending palatine artery ( " Ascending palate artery ") is an artery of the head.

The ascending palatine artery arises when people from the initial portion of the facial artery and attracts between musculus musculus and styloglossus stylopharyngeus side of the pharynx and in the further course between musculus pharyngeal constrictor muscle and the superior medial pterygoid to near the base of the skull.

Near the levator veli palatini, the vessel divides into two branches. One follows the course of this muscle, supplied him, bends around the top of the pharyngeal constrictor muscle superiorly and supplies the soft palate and the palatine glands, where it is received by anastomoses with the vessel to the other side and the descending palatine artery. The second branch passes through the pharyngeal constrictor muscle superiorly and supplies the palatine tonsil and Eustachian tube, it anastomoses with the almond branch of the facial artery and the ascending pharyngeal artery.

With predators and pigs springs the ascending palatine artery from the lingual artery, linguofacial in cattle from the occipital artery and in horses from the trunk.