External Carotid Artery

Branches of External Carotid Artery

 * External carotid artery has 8 branches
 * The branches are the following:
 * 1) Ascending pharyngeal
 * 2) Superior thyroid
 * 3) Lingual
 * 4) Occipital
 * 5) Facial
 * 6) Maxillary
 * 7) Posterior auricular
 * 8) Superficial temporal

Medial Branches

 * Ascending pharyngeal

Posterior Branches

 * 1) Occipital
 * 2) Posterior auricular

Anterior Branches

 * 1) Superior thyroid
 * 2) Lingual
 * 3) Dorsal lingual
 * 4) Sublingual
 * 5) Deep lingual
 * 6) Facial
 * 7) Submental
 * 8) Inferior labial
 * 9) Superior labial
 * 10) Angular
 * 11) Maxillary

Terminal Branch

 * Superficial temporal
 * 1) Transverse facial
 * 2) Zygomatico-orbital
 * 3) Parietal branch (of superficial temporal)
 * 4) Frontal branch (of superficial temporal)

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