The occipital artery arises opposite the facial artery, its path is below the posterior belly of digastric to the occipital region. This artery supplies blood to the back of the scalp and sterno-mastoid muscles. Other muscles it supplies are deep muscles in the back and neck. [WP,unvetted]. [ Wikipedia:Occipital_artery ]
术语信息
- OpenCyc:Mx4rwC1IFJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA
- EMAPA:37672 (MA:th)
- MA:0002009
- NCIT:C33194
- UMLS:C0226117 (ncithesaurus:Occipital_Artery)
- SCTID:244219005
- Wikipedia:Occipital_artery
- FMA:49586
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The occipital artery arises opposite the facial artery, its path is below the posterior belly of digastric to the occipital region. This artery supplies blood to the back of the scalp and sterno-mastoid muscles. Other muscles it supplies are deep muscles in the back and neck. [WP,unvetted].
术语关系
- artery and supplies some scalp and supplies some muscle of neck and branching part of some external carotid artery