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posterior meningeal artery
Origin: ascending pharyngeal artery
Distribution: dura mater of the posterior cranial fossa
Anastomoses:
1) branches of the middle meningeal artery
2) branches of the vertebral artery
Related
meninges
posterior cranial fossa (cerebellar fossa)
General
blood vessel
Properties
FORM: posterior meningeal artery
ORIGIN: ascending pharyngeal artery
References
Stedman's Medical Dictionary 27th ed, Williams &
Wilkins, Baltimore, 1999
Components
intima; tunica intima
tunica media
vascular endothelium