Ascending palatine artery

The ascending palatine artery is an artery in the head that branches off the facial artery and runs up the superior pharyngeal constrictor muscle.

Ascending palatine artery
The internal carotid and vertebral arteries. Right side. (Ascending palantine visible at center, to left of mouth.)
Details
SourceFacial artery
SuppliesLevator veli palatini
soft palate
palatine tonsils
auditory tube
Identifiers
LatinArteria palatina ascendens
TA98A12.2.05.021
TA24389
FMA49555
Anatomical terminology

Structure

The ascending palatine artery arises close to the origin of the facial artery and passes up between the styloglossus and stylopharyngeus to the side of the pharynx along which it is continued between the superior pharyngeal constrictor and the medial pterygoid muscle to near the base of the skull.

It divides near the levator veli palatini muscle into two branches: one supplies and follows the course of this muscle, and, winding over the upper border of the superior pharyngeal constrictor, supplies the soft palate and the palatine glands, anastomosing with its fellow of the opposite side and with the descending palatine branch of the maxillary artery; the other pierces the superior pharyngeal constrictor and supplies the palatine tonsil and auditory tube, anastomosing with the tonsillar branch of the facial artery and the ascending pharyngeal artery.

See also

References

This article incorporates text in the public domain from page 555 of the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)

  • Uflacker, Renan, ed. (2007). "Arteries of the Head and Neck". Atlas of Vascular Anatomy: An Angiographic Approach (2nd ed.). Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. ISBN 978-0-7817-6081-2.


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