Stylomastoid artery

Stylomastoid artery

Infobox Artery
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Latin = arteria stylomastoidea
GraySubject = 144
GrayPage = 557


Caption = The arteries of the face and scalp.


Caption2 =
BranchFrom = posterior auricular artery
BranchTo =
Vein =
Supplies = tympanic cavity, tympanic antrum, mastoid cells, semicircular canals
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MeshNumber =
DorlandsPre = a_61
DorlandsSuf = 12156035
The stylomastoid artery enters the stylomastoid foramen and supplies the tympanic cavity, the tympanic antrum and mastoid cells, and the semicircular canals.

In the young subject a branch from this vessel forms, with the anterior tympanic artery from the internal maxillary, a vascular circle, which surrounds the tympanic membrane, and from which delicate vessels ramify on that membrane.

It anastomoses with the superficial petrosal branch of the middle meningeal artery by a twig which enters the hiatus canalis facialis.

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