Tags: Anatomical Structure, Artery.
The ascending pharyngeal artery is an artery in the neck that supplies the pharynx.It is the smallest branch of the external carotid and is a long slender vessel deeply seated in the neck beneath the other branches of the external carotid and under the stylopharyngeus. It lies just superior to the bifurcation of the common carotid artery.The artery most typically bifurcates into embryologically distinct pharyngeal and neuromeningeal trunks.
