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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

database cross reference
Subsets

uberon_slim, human_reference_atlas

depicted by

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7b/Gray508.png

has related synonym

arteria occipitalis

id

UBERON:0001613

prefLabel

Occipital artery

present in taxon

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_9606