Facial Artery
- Facial artery
- features
- arises in carotid triangle from ECA
- above the tip of greater cornu of hyoid bone
- Then passes through submandibular region
- enters face
- Course
- CERVICAL COURSE
- tortuous course
- allows free movements during swallowing
- runs upwards on superior constrictor of pharynx
- deep to posterior belly of digastric
- with stylohyoid
- to ramus of mandible
- grooves posterior border of submandibular gland
- s bend with two loops
- winds over submandibular gland then to
- over the ramus of mandible
- FACIAL COURSE
- Branches
- FACIAL PART
- anterior branches
- inferior labial - lower lip
- superior labial -
- upper lip
- anteroinferior part of nasal septum
- lateral nasal
- ala and dorsum of nose
- posterior branches are very small
- CERVICAL PART
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