basilar artery

Origin: -> continuation of fused intracranial vertebral arteries Branches: 1) anterior inferior cerebellar artery 2) internal auditory artery 3) pontine arteries 4) mesencephalic arteries 5) superior cerebellar artery 6) posterior cerebral artery 7) bifurcates into the 2 posterior cerebral arteries Course: -> runs along clivus in the pontine cistern of the subarachnoid space from the lower border to the upper border of the pons

Properties

FORM: basilar artery BRANCHES: anterior inferior cerebellar artery internal auditory; labyrinthine artery pontine artery superior cerebellar artery posterior cerebral artery ORIGIN: vertebral artery

References

Stedman's Medical Dictionary 27th ed, Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, 1999

Components

intima; tunica intima tunica media vascular endothelium