The
sphenopalatine artery passes through the
sphenopalatine foramen into the cavity of the
nose, at the back part of the
superior meatus. Here it gives off its posterior lateral nasal branches which spread forward over the
conchæ and meatuses, anastomose with the
ethmoidal arteries and the nasal branches of the
descending palatine
The descending palatine artery is a branch of the third part of the maxillary artery supplying the hard and soft palate.
Course
It descends through the greater palatine canal with the greater and lesser palatine branches of the pterygopalatine ga ...
, and assist in supplying the
frontal,
maxillary
Maxillary means "related to the maxilla (upper jaw bone)". Terms containing "maxillary" include:
* Maxillary artery
*Maxillary nerve
In neuroanatomy, the maxillary nerve (V) is one of the three branches or divisions of the trigeminal nerve, ...
,
ethmoidal
The ethmoid sinuses or ethmoid air cells of the ethmoid bone are one of the four paired paranasal sinuses. The cells are variable in both size and number in the lateral mass of each of the ethmoid bones and cannot be palpated during an extraoral e ...
, and
sphenoidal sinuses.
References
Arteries of the head and neck
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