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ascending pharyngeal artery
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ascending pharyngeal artery
n.
An artery with its origin in the external carotid artery and with distribution to both the wall of the pharynx and the soft palate.
ascending pharyngeal artery,
one of the smallest arteries that branch from the external carotid artery, deep in the neck. It supplies various organs and muscles of the head, such as the tympanic cavity, the longus capitis, and the longus colli. It divides into five branches: the pharyngeal, palatine, prevertebral, inferior tympanic, and posterior meningeal.


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The arterial blood supply is typically the ascending pharyngeal artery and the stylomastoid branch of the occipital artery.
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The origin of the feeder was close to the origins of the ascending pharyngeal artery and the occipital artery (figure 1, A).
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The blood is supplied by the inferior tympanic branch of the ascending pharyngeal artery.
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