Buccal artery

Artery: Buccal artery
The arteries of the face and scalp.
Plan of branches of internal maxillary artery.
Latin arteria buccalis, arteria buccinatoria
Gray's subject #144 561
Supplies cheek, Buccinator muscle
Source maxillary artery (2nd part)   

The buccal artery (buccinator artery) is small and runs obliquely forward, between the Pterygoideus internus and the insertion of the Temporalis, to the outer surface of the Buccinator, to which it is distributed, anastomosing with branches of the facial artery and with the infraorbital.

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