Mylohyoid branch of inferior alveolar artery

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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.)
Latin	ramus mylohyoideus arteriae alveolaris inferioris
Gray's	subject #144 561
Source	inferior alveolar artery
Dorlands/Elsevier	r_02/12691075

As the inferior alveolar artery enters the mental foramen, it gives off a mylohyoid branch which runs in the mylohyoid groove, and ramifies on the under surface of the Mylohyoideus.

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Arteries of head and neck

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