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ascends beneath the lower border of the parotid gland, and behind the 

 concha, to be distributed by two branches to the external ear and side 

 of the head, anastomosing with the occipital and temporal arteries ; 

 some of its branches pass through fissures in the fibro-cartilage, to be 

 distributed to the anterior surface of the pinna. The anterior auricu- 

 lar arteries are branches of the temporal. 



Branches. The posterior auricular gives off but one named branch, 

 the stylo-mastoid, which enters the stylo-mastoid foramen to be distri- 

 buted to the aquaeductus Fallopii and tympanum. 



7. The PAROTIDEAN ARTERIES are four or five large branches 

 which are given off from the external carotid whilst that vessel is 

 situated in the parotid gland. They are distributed to the structure 

 of the gland, their terminal branches reaching the integument and 

 the side of the face. 



8. The ASCENDING PHARYNGEAL ARTERY, the smallest of the 

 branches of the external carotid arises from that trunk near its bi- 

 furcation, and ascends between the internal carotid and the side of 

 the pharynx to the base of the skull, where it divides into two 

 branches ; meningeal, which enters the foramen lacerum posterius, to 

 be distributed to the dura mater ; and pharyngeal. It supplies the 

 pharynx, tonsils, and Eustachian tube. 



9. The TRANSVERSALIS FACIEI arises from the external carotid 

 whilst that trunk is lodged within the parotid gland ; it crosses the 

 masse ter muscle, lying parallel with and a little above Stenon's duct ; 

 and is distributed to the temporo-maxillary articulation, and to the 

 muscles and integument on the side of the face, inosculating with the 

 infra-orbital and facial artery. This artery is not unfrequently a 

 branch of the temporal. 



10. The TEMPORAL ARTERY is one of the two terminal branches 

 of the external carotid. It ascends over the root of the zygoma ; and, 

 at about an inch and a half above the zygomatic arch, divides into an 

 anterior and a posterior temporal branch. The anterior temporal is 

 distributed over the front of the temple and arch of the skull, and ana- 

 stomoses with the opposite anterior temporal, and with the supra-orbi- 

 tal and frontal artery. The posterior temporal curves upwards and 

 backwards, and inosculates with its fellow of the opposite side, with 

 the posterior auricular and occipital artery. 



The trunk of the temporal artery is covered in by the parotid gland 

 and by the attrahens aurem muscle, and rests upon the temporal fascia. 



Branches. Orbitar, 



Anterior auricular, 

 Middle temporal. 



The Orbitar artery is a small branch, not always present, which 



