Anatom3DAccessory branch of middle meningeal artery
Ramus accessorius arteriae meningeae mediae · Přídatná větev střední meningeální tepny
Heart & arteries
Looks like
A small branch from the middle meningeal or maxillary artery, entering the skull through the oval hole at its base.
What it does
Supplies chewing muscles, the ear tube and some of the dura near the trigeminal nerve ganglion.
Keeping it well
Can feed tumours of the skull base; seen and sometimes blocked on angiography before surgery.
Related conditions
- Carotid artery stenosis
- High blood pressure
- High cholesterol
- Hypothermia & frostbite
- Kawasaki disease
- Metabolic syndrome
- Orthostatic hypotension & POTS
- Peripheral artery disease
- Phaeochromocytoma & hyperaldosteronism
- Pre-eclampsia
- Raynaud's phenomenon
- Sepsis
- Shock (circulatory failure)
- Takayasu arteritis
- Vasculitis (GCA & others)