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Anterior deep temporal artery

Deep temporal arteries
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Plan of branches of internal maxillary artery. (Post. deep temporal and ant. deep temporal labeled at center top.)
Details
Source maxillary artery (2nd part)
Identifiers
Latin arteria temporalis profunda anterior, arteria temporalis profunda posterior
Dorlands
/Elsevier
a_61/12156263
TA A12.2.05.071
A12.2.05.072
FMA 49742
Anatomical terminology
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The deep temporal arteries, two in number, anterior and posterior, ascend between the temporalis and the pericranium.

They supply the muscle, and anastomose with the middle temporal artery.

The anterior communicates with the lacrimal artery by means of small branches which perforate the zygomatic bone and great wing of the sphenoid.

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




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