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Definition of Internal maxillary artery

1. Noun. The maxillary artery that supplies deep structure of the face and some of the meninges.

Medical Definition of Internal maxillary artery

1. A branch of the external carotid artery which distributes to the deep structures of the face (internal maxillary) and to the side of the face and nose (external maxillary). (12 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Internal Maxillary Artery

Literary usage of Internal maxillary artery

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Anatomy, Descriptive and Applied by Henry Gray (1913)
"... was performed upon this vessel in cases of inflammation of the eye or brain, but this operation is now obsolete. 8. The internal maxillary artery (a. ..."

2. Manual of Practical Anatomy by Daniel John Cunningham (1903)
"It is embedded in soft fat, and surrounded by the terminal branches of the internal maxillary artery. The two stout spheno - palatine branches which descend ..."

3. Manual of Practical Anatomy by Daniel John Cunningham (1908)
"SPHENO-PALATINE GANGLION AND internal maxillary artery. The spheno-palatine ganglion or the ganglion of Meckel is situated in the spheno-maxillary fossa on ..."

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