Superficial branch of transverse cervical artery

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Artery: Superficial branch of transverse cervical artery
Superficial and deep branches from the transverse cervical artery.
Latin ramus superficialis arteriae transversae colli
Source transverse cervical artery   
Dorlands
/ Elsevier    		 r_02/12692149

The superficial cervical artery is another name for the superficial branch of transverse cervical artery.

[edit] Path

It ascends beneath the anterior margin of the trapezius, distributing branches to it, and to the neighboring muscles and lymph glands in the neck, and anastomosing with the superficial branch of the descending branch of the occipital artery.

[edit] Branches

It has an ascending branch[1] and a descending branch.[2]

[edit] References

  1. ^ r_02/12688942 at Dorland's Medical Dictionary
  2. ^ r_02/12689880 at Dorland's Medical Dictionary
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List of arteries of head and neck
CC/EC
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)