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medial occipital artery (P4 segment of posterior cerebral artery)
Origin: posterior cerebral artery (terminal branch)
Branches:
1) dorsal branch to corpus callosum
2) parietal branch
3) parietooccipital branch
4) occipitotemporal branch
5) calcarine artery
Distribution:
1) corpus callosum
2) medial caudal parietal lobe
3) medial occipital lobe, including visual cortex
Related
visual cortex
General
blood vessel
Properties
FORM: medial occipital artery (P4 segment of posterior cerebral artery)
ORIGIN: posterior cerebral artery
References
Stedman's Medical Dictionary 27th ed, Williams &
Wilkins, Baltimore, 1999
Components
intima; tunica intima
tunica media
vascular endothelium