Head and Neck Vessels Flashcards
What artery supplies the main blood supply other tongue and floor of oral cavity?
lingual artery
The common carotid arteries arise from?
the brachiocephalic trunk
What arteries branch off from the common carotid artery?
- caudal thyroid arteries
- cranial thyroid arteries
The common carotid artery splits off and gives rise to what two arteries?
- internal carotid artery
- external carotid artery
What are the branches of the external carotid artery?
- lingual artery
- facial artery
- superficial temporal artery
- caudal auricular artery
- maxillary artery
The external carotid artery becomes the maxillary artery after which branch?
superficial temporal artery
What are the branches of the maxillary artery?
- inferior alveolar artery
- external opthalamic artery
- infraorbital artery
The lingual artery feeds what muscles?
- styloglossus muscle
- hyoglossus muscle
What branches from the inferior alveolar artery?
mental arteries
The maxillary artery runs with what nerve?
maxillary nerve
What are the exceptions to satellite veins?
- angularis oculi vein
- deep facial vein
- linguofacial vein
- external jugular vein
Cerebral veins open into what?
dura mater sinuses
What are the lymph centers associated with the head and neck?
- parotid lymph center
- mandibular lymph center
- lateral retopharyngeal lymph center
- superficial cervical lymph center
- medial retropharyngeal lymph center
