Alveolar Artery (Noun)
Meaning
A branch of the maxillary artery that supplies the alveolar process.
Classification
Nouns denoting body parts.
Examples
- The anterior and posterior alveolar artery emerge as distinct vessels near their terminus close to the origins of their external counterpart arteries and send ramifications directly toward or enter close-by posterior canines canines the retromolar canal via the retromolar foramen.
- These arteries enter the alveolar process by way of alveolar canals branching and exiting anterior and posterior through the apices and walls of the alveolar fossa in addition to foramina and form an indirect dental network with these.
- Blood to the alveolar process is provided by the alveolar artery a terminal branch of the maxillary artery which traverses alveolar canals inside the bone in direct communication with dental vessels.
- The maxillary division passes around it's assigned vertebral margin descending in proximity with lateral nasal branches then continuing on as the superior alveolar artery.
- Also giving off the infraorbital the superior alveolar the alveolar artery and also nerves – ascending nasal before travelling external side descending vertically upon anterior aspects forming this artery.