Maxillary Artery

Question 1

Maxillary artery (a terminal branch) is from what artery

Answer 1

External Carotid Artery ECA

Question 2

Maxillary artery (MA) has how many branches

Answer 2

3

Question 3

How many branches of the first part of MA are there; name them

Answer 3

5
>Anterior tympanic
>Middle meningeal artery
>Accessory meningeal artery
>Deep auricular artery
>inferior alveolar artery (-Lingual
-Mylohyoid)

Question 4

How many branches of the second part of MA are there; name them

Answer 4

4
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>Masseteric
>Deep temporal
>Buccal
>Pterygoid
>Lingual

Question 5

How many branches of the third part of MA are there; name them

Answer 5

PA PIGS
>Posterior superior alveolar
>Artery to the pterygoid canal
>Pharyngeal
>Infraorbital
>Greater Palatine
>Sphenopalatine (terminal part of maxillary artery)

Question 6

What divides the maxillary artery into 3 parts

Answer 6

Lateral pterygoid muscle

Question 7

What are the contents of temporal fossa

Answer 7

-muscles of mastication
-pterygoid plexus
-maxillary artery and vein
-mandibular nerve and Otic ganglion
-TMJ

Question 8

About the pterygoid plexus

Answer 8

1-SITUATED around the lateral Pterygoid Muscle
2-Tributaries are those veins which accompany
branches of maxillary artery
3-Plexus is draind by maxillary vein
4-Maxillary vein is only accompany to first part of
maxillary artery
5-Maxillary vein unite with superficial temporal
vein to form retromandibular vein
COMMUNICATIONS:-
1.With inferior orbital vein through the inferior
orbital fissure
2.With cavernous sinus through emissary vein
passing through foramen lacerum & ovale
3.With facial vein through deep facial vein

Question 9

Define Otic ganglion

Answer 9

A peripheral parasympathetic ganglion that supplies secretomotor fibres to parotid gland

Question 10

Otic ganglion is suspended from what nerve

Answer 10

Mandibular nerve

Question 11

Otic ganglion anatomically belongs to what nerve and functionally belongs to what nerve

Answer 11

Trigeminal
Glossopharyngeal nerve

Question 12

Size of Otic ganglion

Answer 12

2-3mm in size

Question 13

Location of Otic ganglion

Answer 13

infratemporal fossa just below the foramen Ovale between Mandibular nerve [lateral side ]& Tensor Veli Palatini muscle [medial side]

Question 14

Otic ganglion has connections and branches to 4 roots, name them

Answer 14

1. Motor or Parasympathetic root (secretomotor to parotid gland)
2. Sympathetic root (vasomotor in function)
3. Sensory root
   Other connections to Otic ganglion