occipital artery
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0001613
The occipital artery arises opposite the facial artery, its path is below the posterior belly of digastric to the occipital region. This artery supplies blood to the back of the scalp and sterno-mastoid muscles. Other muscles it supplies are deep muscles in the back and neck. [WP,unvetted]. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occipital_artery ]
Term info
- Wikipedia:Occipital_artery
- FMA:49586
- SCTID:244219005
- MA:0002009
- UMLS:C0226117 (ncithesaurus:Occipital_Artery)
- NCIT:C33194
- EMAPA:37672 (MA:th)
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arteria occipitalis
uberon
UBERON:0001613
Occipital artery
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_9606
Term relations
- artery and supplies some scalp and supplies some muscle of neck and branching part of some external carotid artery