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]. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occipital_artery ]
Term information
- Wikipedia:Occipital_artery
- SCTID:244219005
- MA:0002009
- UMLS:C0226117 (ncithesaurus:Occipital_Artery)
- EMAPA:37672 (MA:th)
- FMA:49586
- NCIT:C33194
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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].
Term relations
- artery and supplies some scalp and supplies some muscle of neck and connecting branch of some external carotid artery
- branch of external carotid artery
- artery
- connecting branch of some external carotid artery
- supplies some scalp
- supplies some muscle of neck