Essays on practical medicine and surgery (Volume 2) . with the branches ofthe opposite side; and posteriorly, withthe occipital and posterior auricular. The temporal and occipital arteries,spread out as they are upon the whole su-perficies of the head, not only supply theWhole of the soft parts which occupy thisregion, and form an intimate anastomosisby all their branches, but likewise distri-bute an infinity of minute ramusculi intothe diploe of the bones, by which an inti-mate and important association is formedbetween them and the vessels within thecranium. h. The internal maxillary artery
Essays on practical medicine and surgery (Volume 2) . with the branches ofthe opposite side; and posteriorly, withthe occipital and posterior auricular. The temporal and occipital arteries,spread out as they are upon the whole su-perficies of the head, not only supply theWhole of the soft parts which occupy thisregion, and form an intimate anastomosisby all their branches, but likewise distri-bute an infinity of minute ramusculi intothe diploe of the bones, by which an inti-mate and important association is formedbetween them and the vessels within thecranium. h. The internal maxillary artery ( a.) (r. maxillaris interims) is largerthan the temporal. From the multiplicity ARTERIES. (Special Anat.) of its branches and their complicated dis-tribution, it is difficult to render them in-telligible by mere description. It sepa-rates from the temporal in the substanceof the parotid gland, and on a level withthe neck of the condyle of the lower jawIn its course forwards to the deep-seatedparts of the face which it supplies, it is Fig. o. Internal Maxillary, b, Superficial Temporal. /, Facial. exceedingly tortuous, and changes its di-rection several times. Tracing it from itsorigin from the external carotid, or ratherfrom the point at which it separates fromthe temporal, it may be divided into threeportions, founded upon the direction pur-sued by it. 1. It advances downwards and inwards tosweep round the inner surface of the neckof the condyle of the lower jaw, and be-tween it and the internal lateral ligament;—then inwards between the two pterygoidmuscles, and the inferior dental and thelingual nerves, and here changing its direc-tion again, it advances forwards towardsthe tuber of the superior maxillary bone,where it terminates in the second, or ver-tical portion. The course of this first partof the artery is nearly horizontal. 2. Having reached the pterygoid pro-cess, the internal maxillary artery ascendsin nearly a perpendicular direction, be-tween the attac
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