A system of surgery : pathological, diagnostic, therapeutic, and operative . d be made as in the opera-tion upon the lingual, its approach beingfacilitated by drawing the digastric musclestrongly upwards. The vessel is most easilyexposed and tied where it lies over the jaw,as in fig. 2*75. The occipital artery sometimes requiresligation on account of wounds, but its depthin the lower part of its extent is such as toprotect it generally from injury involving thecervical region. On the back of the head,however, it is not unfrequently laid open, andusually bleeds very freely. It may be ex-posed j
A system of surgery : pathological, diagnostic, therapeutic, and operative . d be made as in the opera-tion upon the lingual, its approach beingfacilitated by drawing the digastric musclestrongly upwards. The vessel is most easilyexposed and tied where it lies over the jaw,as in fig. 2*75. The occipital artery sometimes requiresligation on account of wounds, but its depthin the lower part of its extent is such as toprotect it generally from injury involving thecervical region. On the back of the head,however, it is not unfrequently laid open, andusually bleeds very freely. It may be ex-posed just above its origin by carrying anincision along the inner border of the sterno-mastoid muscle, in the angle formed by it andthe digastric, the latter of which must be well drawn down. It is in intimaterelation here with the hypoglossal nerve, which hooks round it as it passes for-wards towards its destination. The artery, after emerging from the spleniusmuscle, on the back of the head, fig. 216, is superficial, its course beneath thescalp being denoted by its Ligation of the facial artery. Fig. 276. Fis. 277.
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