Mylohyoid branch of inferior alveolar artery

Mylohyoid branch of inferior alveolar artery

Plan of branches of internal maxillary artery. (Mylohyoid visible at bottom center.)

Plan of branches of internal maxillary artery. (Mylohyoid labeled at bottom center.)
Details
Source inferior alveolar artery
Identifiers
Latin ramus mylohyoideus arteriae alveolaris inferioris
Dorlands
/Elsevier
r_02/12691075
TA A12.2.05.060
FMA 49702

Anatomical terminology

As the inferior alveolar artery enters the mandibular foramen, it gives off a mylohyoid branch which runs in the mylohyoid groove, and supplies the mylohyoid muscle.

References

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

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