Pharyngeal branches of ascending pharyngeal artery

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Artery: Pharyngeal branches of ascending pharyngeal artery
The internal carotid and vertebral arteries. Right side.
Latin rami pharyngeales arteriae pharyngeae ascendentis
Gray's subject #144 557
Supplies pharynx
Source ascending pharyngeal artery   
Dorlands
/ Elsevier    		 r_02/12691555

The pharyngeal branches of ascending pharyngeal artery are small branches of the ascending pharyngeal artery.

They are are three or four in number. Two of these descend to supply the Constrictores pharyngis medius and inferior and the Stylopharyngeus, ramifying in their substance and in the mucous membrane lining them.

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List of arteries of head and neck
CC/EC
posterior meningeal - pharyngeal branches - inferior tympanic
cervical branches (ascending palatine, tonsillar, submental, glandular) - facial branches (inferior labial, superior labial/nasal septum, lateral nasal, angular)
CC/IC
orbital group: posterior ethmoidal - anterior ethmoidal (anterior septal, anterior lateral nasal, anterior meningeal) - lacrimal (lateral palpebral) - medial palpebral - terminal (supraorbital, supratrochlear, dorsal nasal)
ocular group: central retinal - ciliary (short posterior, long posterior, anterior) - hypophysial (superior, inferior)
SC
meningeal - spinal (posterior, anterior) - cerebellar (PICA)
basilar: pontine - labyrinthine - cerebellar (AICA, SCA) - cerebral (PCA)