middle meningeal artery

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Related to middle meningeal artery: Accessory meningeal artery, Middle meningeal nerve

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middle meningeal artery - branch of the maxillary artery; its branches supply meninges

arteria meningea, meningeal artery - any of three arteries supplying the meninges of the brain and neighboring structures

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The main trunk of the auriculotemporal nerve passed backwards, deep to the middle meningeal artery.

Unusual Origin and Relations of the Accessory Meningeal Artery--A Case Report/Origen Inusual y Relaciones de la Arteria Meningea Accesoria--Reporte de un Caso

The origination of this hematoma occurs either from the traumatic injury to temporal lobes resulting in middle meningeal artery braches laceration or tear or fracture of occipital bones with secondary injury to transverse sinus 13 .

CLINICAL PRESENTATION AND OUTCOME OF TRAUMATIC EPIDURAL HEMATOMAS IN POSTERIOR FOSSA: STUDY OF 34 CASES

His paper on anomalous middle meningeal artery, in the bilateral absence of foramen spinosum was a case of a single skull.

Infraorbital sulcus: a study in 100 skulls

39) These include: distal external carotid artery ethmoidal perforators to the ophthalmic artery, superficial temporal artery to the middle cerebral artery, middle meningeal artery to the ophthalmic artery, and occipital artery to the vertebral artery (Figure 7).