external carotid artery
Carotis externa
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Definition
A terminal branch of the left or right common carotid artery which supplies oxygenated blood to to the throat, neck glands, tongue, face, mouth, ear, scalp and dura mater of the meninges[MP].
Source: UBERON · Licence: CC-BY-3.0
Definition from the Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall CJ et al., Genome Biology 2012, 13:R5), https://obophenotype.github.io/uberon/, licensed under CC BY 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
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Identifiers
- TA2
- 4369
- TA98
- A12.2.05.001
- FMA
- 10635
- UBERON
- 0001070
- Wikidata
- Q125276
