The lesser palatine arteries go through the lesser palatine foramina, and supply the soft palate.
It gives off tonsillary branches to the palatine tonsils.[1]
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| | | | | | - transverse facial
- middle temporal (zygomatico-orbital)
- anterior auricular
- frontal
- parietal
| - anterior tympanic
- deep auricular
- middle meningeal (superior tympanic, petrosal)
- accessory meningeal
- inferior alveolar
| - to muscles of mastication (deep temporal, pterygoid, masseteric)
- buccal
| - posterior superior alveolar
- infraorbital (anterior superior alveolar)
- descending palatine (greater palatine, lesser palatine)
- artery of the pterygoid canal
- sphenopalatine (posterior septal branches, posterior lateral nasal)
- pharyngeal
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| | | - orbital group:anterior ethmoidal
- posterior ethmoidal
- lacrimal (lateral palpebral)
- medial palpebral
- terminal (supraorbital, supratrochlear, dorsal nasal)
ocular group: central retinal - ciliary (short posterior, long posterior, anterior)
- Circulus arteriosus major
- hypophysial (superior, inferior)
| - Circle of Willis
- ACA (anterior communicating, Recurrent artery of Heubner, Orbitofrontal artery)
- MCA (anterolateral central, Prefrontal artery, Superior terminal branch, Inferior terminal branch, Anterior temporal branch)
- posterior communicating
- anterior choroidal
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- meningeal
- spinal (posterior, anterior)
- basilar: pontine
- labyrinthine
- cerebellar (AICA, SCA, PICA)
- cerebral (PCA)
| - inferior laryngeal
- tracheal
- esophageal
- ascending cervical
- pharyngeal
- glandular branches
| - superficial branch
- deep branch / dorsal scapular
| - acromial branch
- scapular anastomosis
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| - deep cervical
- Supreme Intercostal artery
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- MA: 2781285417
- TA98: A12.2.05.086
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