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Definition of Middle meningeal artery
1. Noun. Branch of the maxillary artery; its branches supply meninges.
Medical Definition of Middle meningeal artery
1. Origin, maxillary; branches, petrosal, superior tympanic, frontal and parietal; distribution, to parts mentioned and through terminal branches to anterior and middle cranial fossae; anastomoses, meningeal branches of occipital, ascending pharyngeal, ophthalmic and lacrimal, stylomastoid, accessory meningeal branch of maxillary, and deep temporal. Synonym: arteria meningea media. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Middle Meningeal Artery
Literary usage of Middle meningeal artery
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1901)
"... they present depressions for the convolutions of the brain and grooves for
the branches of the middle meningeal artery ; the latter commence on the ..."
2. Cunningham's Manual of Practical Anatomy by Daniel John Cunningham, Arthur Robinson (1914)
"After entering the cranium the middle meningeal artery runs anteriorly and
laterally, across the floor of the middle fossa, towards the lateral wall, ..."
3. The Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science by Iowa Academy of Science (1906)
"I find that the middle meningeal artery arises variously. More often it arises
irom the intra- cranial portion of the carotid plexus. ..."
4. A Practical treatise on fractures and dislocations by Lewis Atterbury Stimson (1907)
"Rupture of the middle meningeal artery. Rupture of the middle meningea] artery
or of one of its branches by a fracture crossing its course, or even without ..."
5. The Anatomy of the human skeleton by Henry Morris, John Ernest Frazer (1914)
"The hiatus canalis facialis for the great superficial petrosal nerve and the
petrosal branch of the middle meningeal artery. The accessory hiatus for the ..."
6. The Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science by Iowa Academy of Science (1906)
"I find that the middle meningeal artery arises variously. More often it arises
irom the intra- cranial portion of the carotid plexus. ..."
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