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]