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superior thyroid artery
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superior thyroid artery,
one of a pair of arteries in the neck, usually arising from the external carotid artery, that supplies the thyroid gland and several muscles in the head.


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7) The EBSLN then descends along the larynx and crosses dorsally to the superior thyroid artery.
43-46) As a result, even the injection of live staphylococci and streptococci into the superior thyroid arteries of dogs seldom produces an abscess.
 
 
 
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