Vasculature

Question 1

Describe blood supply to the cranial cavity, face and neck?

Answer 1

Cranial cavity: ICA and vertebral artery
Face: ICA and ECA branches
Neck: ECA and subclavian artery branches

Question 2

Branches of the external carotid artery?

Answer 2

Superior thyroid artery
Ascending pharyngeal artery
Lingual artery
Facial artery
Occipital artery
Posterior auricular artery
Maxillary artery
Superficial temporal artery

(some anatomists like freaking out poor medical students)

Question 3

All veins from the head and neck ultimately drain into?

Answer 3

The internal jugular vein

Question 4

The cranial cavity venous drainage follows _______

Answer 4

dural venous sinuses