Glandular branches of facial artery

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Artery: Glandular branches of facial artery
The arteries of the face and scalp. (Glandular branch visible but not labeled.)
Salivary glands: #1 is Parotid gland, #2 is Submaxillary gland, #3 is Sublingual gland
Latin	rami glandulares arteriae facialis
Gray's	subject #144 555
Supplies	submandibular gland
Source	facial artery
Dorlands/Elsevier	r_02/12690221

The glandular branches of the facial artery (submaxillary branches) consist of three or four large vessels, which supply the submaxillary gland, some being prolonged to the neighboring muscles, lymph glands, and integument.

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COMMON CAROTID, EXTERNAL CAROTID: Anterior: superior thyroid (superior laryngeal) - lingual (sublingual) facial: cervical branches (ascending palatine - tonsillar - submental - glandular) - facial branches (inferior labial - superior labial - lateral nasal - angular) Posterior and ascending: occipital - posterior auricular (stylomastoid) - ascending pharyngeal (meningeal branches) Terminal, superficial temporal: transverse facial - middle temporal (zygomaticoörbital) - anterior auricular - frontal - parietal Terminal, maxillary 1st part: anterior tympanic - deep auricular - middle meningeal (superior tympanic) - accessory meningeal - inferior alveolar (mylohyoid) Terminal, maxillary 2nd part: deep temporal - pterygoid branches - masseteric - buccal Terminal, maxillary 3rd part: posterior superior alveolar - infraorbital (anterior superior alveolar) - descending palatine - artery of the pterygoid canal - sphenopalatine INTERNAL CAROTID: cervical portion - petrous portion (Vidian, caroticotympanic) - cavernous portion (ophthalmic) orbital group: lacrimal - supraorbital - posterior ethmoidal - anterior ethmoidal - medial palpebral - supratrochlear - dorsal nasal - ocular group: central retinal - ciliary (short posterior, long posterior, anterior) - superior hypophysial - inferior hypophyseal cerebral portion: anterior cerebral - anterior communicating - middle cerebral - posterior communicating - anterior choroidal - circle of Willis SUBCLAVIAN: vertebral: meningeal branches - posterior spinal - anterior spinal - posterior inferior cerebellar - basilar (pontine - labyrinthine - anterior inferior cerebellar - superior cerebellar - posterior cerebral) thyrocervical trunk: inferior thyroid (inferior laryngeal, tracheal, esophageal, ascending cervical) - suprascapular - transverse cervical - dorsal scapular