List of articles in "Anatomical Structure" category - Page 113

The costamere is a structural-functional component of striated muscle cells which connects the sarcomere of the muscle to the cell membrane.Costameres are sub-sarcolemmal protein assemblies circumferentially aligned in register with […]

The pterygoid branches of the maxillary artery irregular in their number and origin supply the lateral pterygoid muscle and medial pterygoid muscle.

The glandular branches of the facial artery (submaxillary branches) consist of three or four large vessels which supply the submandibular gland some being prolonged to the neighboring muscles lymph glands […]

The pontine arteries are a number of small vessels which come off at right angles from either side of the basilar artery and supply the pons and adjacent parts of […]

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 […]

The frontal branch of superficial temporal artery (anterior temporal) runs tortuously upward and forward to the forehead supplying the muscles integument and pericranium in this region and anastomosing with the […]

The mastoid lymph nodes (retroauricular lymph nodes or posterior auricular glands) are a small group of lymph nodes usually two in number located just beneath the ear on the mastoid […]

The occipital lymph nodes one to three in number are located on the back of the head close to the margin of the Trapezius and resting on the insertion of […]

In earlier conceptions of kidney biology the nephrotome was a section of the mesoderm that gives rise to the pronephros and eventually to the rest of the kidney. Older texts […]

The iliopectineal line is the border of the iliopubic eminence. It can be defined as a compound structure of the arcuate line (from the ilium) and pectineal line (from the […]