- Occipital artery is the smallest of the terminal branches of the common carotid artery. It passes upwards beneath the wing of atlas and during its course it gives off-
- Muscular branches to the ventral straight muscles of the head.
- Branches to the pharynx
- Palatine branches to the soft palate. It is then continued as the condyloid artery.
- The condyloid artery passes into the cranium through the anterior foramen in the condyloid fossa and joins the vertebral artery in the formation of rete mirabile cerebri.
- Before entering the cranium it gives off a branch to the pharyngeal lymph glands and the middle meningeal artery.
- The latter passes through the foramen lacerum. Another branch enters the temporal canal and gives twigs to the temporalis muscle and the mucous membrane of the frontal sinus.
- A diploic branch goes into the occipital condyle and emits twigs to the occipital muscles.
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