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ascending cervical artery
Origin:
-> thyrocervical trunk (terminal branch along with inferior thyroid artery
Distribution:
1) muscles of the neck
2) spinal cord
Anastomoses:
1) branches of the vertebral artery
2) occipital artery
3) ascending pharyngeal artery
4) deep cervical artery
General
blood vessel
Properties
FORM: ascending cervical artery
ORIGIN: thyrocervical trunk
References
Stedman's Medical Dictionary 27th ed, Williams &
Wilkins, Baltimore, 1999
Components
intima; tunica intima
tunica media
vascular endothelium