Mylohyoid Branch of Inferior Alveolar Artery

As the inferior alveolar artery enters the mandibular foramen, it gives off a mylohyoid branch which runs in the mylohyoid groove, and supplies the mylohyoid muscle.

This article incorporates text from a public domain edition of Gray's Anatomy.

List of arteries of head and neck (TA A12.2.05–08, GA 6.549)
CC
EC
sup. thyroid
  • superior laryngeal
  • sternocleidomastoid branch
  • infrahyoid branch
  • cricothyroid branch
  • glandular branches
asc. pharyngeal
  • posterior meningeal
  • pharyngeal branches
  • inferior tympanic
lingual
  • suprahyoid
  • dorsal lingual
  • deep lingual
  • sublingual
facial
  • cervical branches (ascending palatine, tonsillar, submental, glandular)
  • facial branches (inferior labial
  • superior labial / nasal septum
  • lateral nasal
  • angular)
occipital
  • sternocleidomastoid
  • meningeal
  • occipital
  • auricular
  • descending
post. auricular
  • stylomastoid
  • stapedial
  • auricular
  • occipital
sup. temporal
  • transverse facial
  • middle temporal (zygomatico-orbital)
  • anterior auricular
  • frontal
  • parietal
maxillary
1st part / mandibular
  • anterior tympanic
  • deep auricular
  • middle meningeal (superior tympanic, petrosal)
  • accessory meningeal
  • inferior alveolar (mental, mylohyoid)
2nd part / pterygoid
  • to muscles of mastication (deep temporal, pterygoid, masseteric)
  • buccal
3rd part / pterygopalatine
  • posterior superior alveolar
  • infraorbital (anterior superior alveolar)
  • descending palatine (greater palatine, lesser palatine)
  • artery of the pterygoid canal
  • sphenopalatine (posterior septal branches, posterior lateral nasal)
  • pharyngeal
IC
cervical
  • carotid sinus
petrous
  • Vidian
  • caroticotympanic
cavernous/
ophthalmic
  • orbital group:anterior ethmoidal (anterior septal, anterior lateral nasal, anterior meningeal)
  • posterior ethmoidal
  • lacrimal (lateral palpebral)
  • medial palpebral
  • terminal (supraorbital, supratrochlear, dorsal nasal)

ocular group: central retinal

  • ciliary (short posterior, long posterior, anterior)
  • hypophysial (superior, inferior)
Willis/Cerebral
  • ACA (anterior communicating, medial striate)
  • MCA (anterolateral central, Orbitofrontal artery, Prefrontal artery, Superior terminal branch, Inferior terminal branch, Anterior temporal branch)
  • posterior communicating
  • anterior choroidal
SC
vertebral artery
  • meningeal
  • spinal (posterior, anterior)
  • basilar: pontine
  • labyrinthine
  • cerebellar (AICA, SCA, PICA)
  • cerebral (PCA)
thyrocervical trunk
inferior thyroid
  • inferior laryngeal
  • tracheal
  • esophageal
  • ascending cervical
  • pharyngeal
  • glandular branches
transverse cervical
  • superficial branch
  • deep branch / dorsal scapular
suprascapular
  • acromial branch
costocervical trunk
  • deep cervical
  • Supreme Intercostal artery

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