Posterior meningeal artery

The posterior meningeal artery is one of the meningeal branches of the ascending pharyngeal artery (and is typically considered the terminal branch of said artery). It passes through the jugular foramen to enter the posterior cranial fossa.^[1] It is the largest vessel supplying the dura of the posterior cranial fossa.^{[citation needed]}

Posterior meningeal artery
Posterior meningeal groove labeled at bottom left.
Details
Source	Ascending pharyngeal artery
Identifiers
Latin	arteria meningea posterior
TA98	A12.2.05.011
TA2	4379
FMA	49503
Anatomical terminology [edit on Wikidata]

It may occasionally arise from other arteries (e.g. the occipital artery).^{[citation needed]}

It forms anastomoses with the branches of the middle meningeal artery, and the vertebral artery.^[2]

References

This article incorporates text in the public domain from page 558 of the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)

1. Standring, Susan (2020). Gray's Anatomy: The Anatomical Basis of Clinical Practice (42th ed.). New York. p. 586. ISBN 978-0-7020-7707-4. OCLC 1201341621.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
2. "posterior meningeal artery". TheFreeDictionary.com. Retrieved 2023-07-25.

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