GREAT VESSELS AND NERVES OF NECK 209 



Musculus Stylopharyngeus. The stylopharyngeus is the 

 longest of the three slender muscles which spring from the 

 styloid process. It arises from the deep or medial surface 

 of the process, close to its root, and extends downwards and 



Superficial temporal 



Frontal branch of 

 'ophthalmic artery 

 Supra-orbital branch of 

 ophthalmic artery 



Middle temporal 

 Transverse facial 



Angular 

 Lateral nasal 



Infra-orbital 

 Superior labial 



Inferior labial 



(O.T. inferior 

 abial.) See p. 1.8 



Buccinator branch of internal maxillary 

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External maxillary 



FIG. 76. Arteries of the Face. 



forwards to gain the side of the pharynx, where it dis- 

 appears under cover of the upper border of the middle 

 constrictor muscle. Whilst under cover of the middle con- 

 strictor its fibres blend with those of the pharyngo-palatinus, 

 and, with them, are inserted into the posterior border of the 

 corresponding lamina of the thyreoid cartilage. It is supplied 

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