Posterior lateral nasal arteries

The sphenopalatine artery passes through the sphenopalatine foramen into the cavity of the nose, at the back part of the superior meatus. Here it gives off its posterior lateral nasal branches which spread forward over the conchæ and meatuses, anastomose with the ethmoidal arteries and the nasal branches of the descending palatine, and assist in supplying the frontal, maxillary, ethmoidal, and sphenoidal sinuses.

Posterior lateral nasal arteries
Details
Sourcesphenopalatine artery
Identifiers
Latinarteriae nasales posteriores laterales
TAA12.2.05.089
FMA71689
Anatomical terminology

References

This article incorporates text in the public domain from page 562 of the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)


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