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ascending palatine artery
Origin: facial artery
Distribution:
1) lateral walls of pharynx
2) tonsils
3) auditory tubes
4) soft palate
Anastomoses:
1) tonsillar branches of facial artery
2) dorsal lingual artery
3) descending palatine artery
General
blood vessel
Properties
FORM: ascending palatine artery
ORIGIN: facial artery
References
- Grant's Atlas of Anatomy, 10th edition, AMR Agur & MJ Lee (eds),
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia, 1999
- Stedman's Medical Dictionary 27th ed, Williams &
Wilkins, Baltimore, 1999
Components
intima; tunica intima
tunica media
vascular endothelium