Branches
The branches of the facial artery are:
- cervical
- Ascending palatine artery
- Tonsillar branch
- Submental artery
- Glandular branches
- facial
- Inferior labial artery
- Superior labial artery
- Lateral nasal branch to nasalis muscle
- Angular artery - the terminal branch
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- first letter corresponds to first letter of each branch.
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