Identifier: anatomydescripti1897gray (find matches)
Title: Anatomy, descriptive and surgical
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Gray, Henry, 1825-1861 Carter, H. V. (Henry Vandyke), 1831-1897 Pick, T. Pickering (Thomas Pickering), 1841-1919
Subjects: Anatomy Human anatomy Anatomy, Surgical and topographical
Publisher: London : Longmans, Green
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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). It is accompaniedby the facial vein throughout its entire course; the vein is not tortuous like theartery, and, on the face, is separated from that vessel by a considerable interval,lying to its outer side. The branches of the facial nerve cross the artery, andthe infra-orbital nerve lies beneath it. The branches of this vessel may be divided into two sets : those given offbelow the jaw^ (cervical), and those on the face (facial). FACIAL 563 Cervical Branches.Inferior or Ascending Palatine.Tonsillar.Submaxillary.Submental.Muscular. Facial Branches.Muscular.Inferior Labial.Inferior Coronary.Superior Coronary.Lateralis Nasi.Angular. The inferior or ascending palatine (fig. 391) passes up between the Stylo-glossus and Stylo-pharyngeus to the outer side of the pharynx, along which it iscontinued between the Superior constrictor and the Internal pterygoid to nearthe base of the skull. It supplies the neighbouring muscles, the tonsil, and Fig. 38S.—-The arteries of the face and scalp.*
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Arteria septi nasiSuperior coronary In^enor coronaryIntel tor labial Eustachian tube, and divides, near the Levator palati, into two branches : onefollows the course of the Levator palati, and, winding over the upper border ofthe Superior constrictor, supplies the soft palate and the palatine glands,anastomosing with its fellow of the opposite side and with the posterior palatinebranch of the internal maxillary artery; the other pierces the Superior con-strictor and supplies the tonsil, anastomosing with the tonsillar artery. The tonsillar branch (fig. 391) passes up between the Internal Pterygoid andStylo-glossus, and then ascends along the side of the pharynx, perforating theSuperior constrictor, to ramify in the substance of the tonsil and root of thetongue. * The muscular tissue of the lips must be supposed to have been cut away, in order toshow the course of the coronary arteries. 0 0 2 564 . AETEEIES The submaxillary consist of three or fovir large branches, which supply thesubm

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