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Zygomaticoörbital branch

Zygomatico-orbital artery
Details
Source middle temporal
Identifiers
Latin arteria zygomaticoorbitalis
Dorlands
/Elsevier
a_61/12156533
TA A12.2.05.049
FMA 49663
Anatomical terminology
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The middle temporal artery occasionally gives off a zygomatico-orbital branch, which runs along the upper border of the zygomatic arch, between the two layers of the temporal fascia, to the lateral angle of the orbit.

This branch, which may arise directly from the superficial temporal artery, supplies the Orbicularis oculi, and anastomoses with the lacrimal and palpebral branches of the ophthalmic artery.

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



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