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facial artery
Origin: external carotid artery
Branches:
1) ascending palatine artery
2) tonsillar branch
3) glandular branch
5) submental artery
6) inferior labial artery
7) superior labial artery
8) masseteric branch
9) buccal branch
10) lateral nasal branches
11) angular artery
General
blood vessel
Properties
FORM: facial artery
ORIGIN: external carotid artery
References
Stedman's Medical Dictionary 27th ed, Williams &
Wilkins, Baltimore, 1999
Components
intima; tunica intima
tunica media
vascular endothelium