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]. [ http://www.informatics.jax.org/accession/anna ]
Synonyms: external carotid
Term information
- OpenCyc:Mx4rwVJkPZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA
- EFO:0001953
- EHDAA2:0000461
- MA:0001929
- BTO:0004696
- SCTID:362044002
- VHOG:0000265
- EMAPA:18611
- Wikipedia:External_carotid_artery
- FMA:10635
- GAID:480
- AAO:0010416
- UMLS:C0007275 (ncithesaurus:External_Carotid_Artery)
- AAO:0010218
- XAO:0000345
- MESH:D002342
- NCIT:C32551
uberon_slim, efo_slim, pheno_slim, vertebrate_core, human_reference_atlas
not homologous to the external carotid of zebrafish (Goodrich, 1958) - http://zfish.nichd.nih.gov/zfatlas/Intro%20Page/comparative.html; check XAO