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lingual artery

(′liŋ·gwəl ′ärd·ə·rē)

(anatomy) An artery originating in the external carotid and supplying the tongue.


 
 
Medical Dictionary: lingual artery

n.

An artery with origin in the carotid artery, with distribution to the undersurface of the tongue, terminating as the deep artery of the tongue, and with branches to the suprahyoid and dorsal lingual branches and the sublingual artery.

 
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The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: an artery originating from the external carotid artery and supplying the under side of the tongue
  Synonym: arteria lingualis


 
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Artery: Lingual artery
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Superficial dissection of the right side of the neck, showing the carotid and subclavian arteries. The branch of the lingual artery is labeled
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Veins of the tongue. The hypoglossal nerve has been displaced downward in this preparation. (Lingual artery labeled at center left.)
Latin arteria lingualis
Gray's subject #144 553
Supplies genioglossus
Source external carotid
Vein lingual vein
Dorlands/Elsevier a_61/12154839

The lingual artery arises from the external carotid between the superior thyroid and facial artery.

It first runs obliquely upward and medialward to the greater cornu of the hyoid bone.

It then curves downward and forward, forming a loop which is crossed by the hypoglossal nerve, and passing beneath the Digastricus and Stylohyoideus it runs horizontally forward, beneath the Hyoglossus, and finally, ascending almost perpendicularly to the tongue, turns forward on its lower surface as far as the tip, under the name of the deep lingual artery (profunda linguae ).

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