Lingual Artery

This artery often arises from the common carotid, with the facial and less frequently with the superior thyroid. The lingual, facial and superior thyroid may arise from a common trunk. It may also arise in common with the facial artery (Faller, 10-20%) or with the superior thyroid or both of these with the maxillary artery (Haller, 14%; Quain, 20%; Livini, 25%; Dall'Acqua, 20%; Poynter, 15%) or with the ascending pharyngeal (Livini, 0.5%).

The lingual sometimes branches from the facial. It may also give rise to both the facial and the maxillary, and to the submental, ascending palatine, superior laryngeal, or accessory superior thyroid.

Its hyoid branch may be absent, and the hyoid branch varies in size inversely with the hyoid branch of the superior thyroid artery.

The lingual is occasionally replaced, totally or partially, by a branch of the maxillary or of the submental branch of the facial.

The lingual artery sometimes pierces the origin of the hyoglossus rather than passing beneath the posterior border of the muscle.

The sublingual branch may arise from the facial and then pierce the mylohyoid muscle.

The lingual artery may provide the following unusual branches: the superior laryngeal, the submental, and the ascending palatine arteries.

Ascending Palatine

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