Dorsal nasal artery

Dorsal nasal artery
Bloodvessels of the eyelids, front view. 1, supraorbital artery and supraorbital vein; 2, nasal artery; 3, angular artery, the terminal branch of 4, the facial artery; 5, suborbital artery; 6, anterior branch of the superficial temporal artery; 6’, malar branch of the transverse artery of the face; 7, lacrimal artery; 8, superior palpebral artery with 8’, its external arch; 9, anastomoses of the superior palpebral with the superficial temporal and lacrimal; 10, inferior palpebral artery; 11, facial vein; 12, angular vein; 13, branch of the superficial temporal vein.
Details
Source	ophthalmic artery
Branches	twig to the upper part of the lacrimal sac to root of the nose dorsum of the nose
Identifiers
Latin	arteria dorsalis nasi
Dorlands /Elsevier	a_61/12154176
TA	A12.2.06.049
FMA	50000
Anatomical terminology [edit on Wikidata]

The dorsal nasal artery (nasal artery) is an artery of the head. It is one of the two terminal branches of the ophthalmic artery.

Course

It emerges from the orbit above the medial palpebral ligament, and, after giving a twig to the upper part of the lacrimal sac, divides into two branches.

• One of these crosses the root of the nose, and anastomoses with the angular artery.
• The other runs along the dorsum of the nose, supplying its outer surface, and anastomoses with its fellow artery of the opposite side, and with the lateral nasal branch of the facial artery.

References

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

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