Ascending pharyngeal artery

The ascending pharyngeal artery (such as " ascending pharyngeal artery" ) is a small artery, which arises in man as a rule from the external carotid artery, the external carotid artery. In about 1-2 % of the population she goes as a normal variation, however, from out of the internal carotid artery, the internal carotid artery. In both cases it originates just above the carotid bulb and first runs between the two carotid arteries ( internal carotid artery and externa). Towards the head, then in the side wall of the muscular pharynx Your terminal branches supply as Rami pharyngei the throat muscles, as inferior tympanic artery partially the tympanic cavity and as the middle meningeal artery posterior posterior and basal portions of the dura mater. The latter passes through the jugular foramen into the cranial cavity.

Swell

• T. H. Schiebler (ed.): Anatomy. Springer, Heidelberg 2005. ISBN 3-540-21966-8.

• Artery of the head