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posterior septal arteries
Origin: Sphenopalatine artery
Course:
-> crosses inferior surface of body of sphenoid to reach nasal septum, courses anteroinferiorly on vomer to incisive canals
Distribution:
1) nasal septum
2) anastomoses with greater palatine artery & septal branch of superior labial artery
General
blood vessel
Properties
FORM: posterior septal arteries
References
Stedman's Medical Dictionary 27th ed, Williams &
Wilkins, Baltimore, 1999.
Components
intima; tunica intima
tunica media
vascular endothelium