Caroticotympanic arteries

Tags: Anatomical Structure, Artery.

The caroticotympanic branch (tympanic branch) is small; it enters the tympanic cavity through a minute foramen in the carotid canal and anastomoses with the anterior tympanic branch of the internal maxillary and with the stylomastoid artery.

branch from: Petrous portion of the internal carotid artery
Dorlands prefix: a_61
Dorlands suffix: 12153652
Gray page: 568
Gray subject: 146
supplies: Tympanic cavity

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