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deep cervical artery
Origin: costocervical trunk (terminal branch)
Distribution: posterior deep muscles of neck
Anastomoses:
1) branches of occipital artery
2) cervical artery
3) branches of vertebral artery
General
blood vessel
Properties
FORM: deep cervical artery
ORIGIN: costocervical trunk
References
Stedman's Medical Dictionary 27th ed, Williams &
Wilkins, Baltimore, 1999
Components
intima; tunica intima
tunica media
vascular endothelium