Definition of Palatine artery

1. Noun. One of several arteries supplying the face.

Exact synonyms: Arteria Palatina
Generic synonyms: Arteria, Arterial Blood Vessel, Artery

Lexicographical Neighbors of Palatine Artery

palate hook
palate myograph
palated
palates
palatial
palatially
palatialness
palatialnesses
palatic
palatics
palatiform
palatinase
palatinates
palatine
palatine aponeurosis
palatine artery (current term)
palatine bone
palatine bones
palatine glands
palatine groove
palatine papilla
palatine process
palatine raphe
palatine ridge
palatine spines
palatine surface of horizontal plate of palatine bone
palatine tonsil
palatine tonsils
palatine torus
palatine uvula

Literary usage of Palatine artery

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

1. Cunningham's Manual of Practical Anatomy by Daniel John Cunningham, Arthur Robinson (1914)
"The great palatine artery descends through the great palatine foramen into the hard palate; there it runs anteriorly to reach the incisive foramen, ..."

2. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1901)
"The position of the descending palatine artery im the hard palate should be borne in mind in performing an operation for the closure of a cleft in the hard ..."

3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1868)
"The superior palatine artery in its horizontal portion, which extends ... One of the little terminal branches of the ascending or inferior palatine artery, ..."

4. Manual of Practical Anatomy by Daniel John Cunningham (1921)
"4. The spheno-palatine. Arteria Palatina Descendens.—The descending palatine artery is a terminal branch of the internal maxillary artery. ..."

5. Anatomy, Descriptive and Applied by Henry Gray (1913)
"The position of the descending palatine artery on the hard palate should be borne in mind in performing an operation for the closure of a cleft in the hard ..."

6. Quain's Elements of Anatomy by Jones Quain, Allen Thomson, George Dancer Thane (1882)
"The nasal or spheno-palatine artery enters the ... ends in a small vessel which enters the incisor foramen communicate with the descending palatine artery. ..."

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