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THE ARTERIES OF THE HEAT) AND NECK, 



Fig. 340. THE CAROTID, SUBCLAVIAN, AND AXILLARY ARTERIES. (Tiedemann.) 



The great pectoral, the sterno-mastoid, and the sternohyoid and sterno-thyroid muscles have been 

 removed ; the front part of the deltoid has been divided near the clavicle ; the greater part of the 

 digastric muscle has been removed, and the upper part of the splenius capitis and trachelo-mastoid 

 divided near the mastoid process. For the explanation of the references from 1 to 12, see p. 433. 13, 

 14, common carotid artery ; 15, external carotid ; 16, internal carotid ; 17, 17, inside the thyroid axis 

 of the subclavian, and pointing to the inferior thyroid artery where it is distributed to the gland ; 18, 

 superior thyroid ; 19, lingual artery, exposed by the removal of part of the hyo-glossus muscle ; 20, 

 facial artery, giving off the palatine, tonsillar and submental branches ; 21, inferior, 22, superior 

 coronary ; 23, occipital ; 24, posterior auricular ; 25, superficial temporal ; 2f>, internal maxillary ; 27, 

 transverse facial, in this instance double, and given off directly by the external carotid. 



muscle, only a small artery being: placed in the usual position. In a few instances the artery 

 has been seen to turn backwards below the transverse process of the atlas. 



Branches. A posterior meningeal branch is sometimes given from the occipital artery, 



