The External Carotid Artery: Anatomy, Branches, And Functions

The External Carotid Artery: Anatomy, Branches, And Functions

Describe the external carotid artery in brief.
Answer.

Eternal Carotid Artery Origin and extent

• It is one of the two terminal branches of the common carotid artery.
• It extends from the level of the upper border of the thyroid cartilage to the back of the neck of the mandible, where it terminates by dividing into superficial temporal and maxillary arteries.

Branches

They are eight in number which corresponds to the number of alphabets in the term ‘EXTERNAL’, i.e. 8.