SUPERIOR THYROID ARTERY. 

 Fig. 256. ' 



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Fig. 256. SUPERFICIAL VIEW OP THE ARTERIES OP THE HEAD AND NECK (from 



Tiedemaun). J 



a, placed upon the orbicularis oris near the place where it is joined by the levator labii 

 superiors, the zygomatici minor and major, and triangularis oris ; 6, upper part of the 

 steruo-inastoid muscle ; c, parotid gland near its duct ; d, body of the hyoid bone near 

 the place of meeting of the digastric, stylo-hyoid, sterno-hyoid, and omo-hyoid muscles ; e, 

 is placed on the clavicle at the place where, superiorly, the omo-hyoid dips behind it and 

 the trapezius muscle, and iuferiorly the interval exists between the pectoral and deltoid 

 muscles ; 1, trunk of the common carotid artery near its division into the external and 

 internal carotid arteries; 1', the internal carotid; 2, placed on the upper belly of the 

 omo-hyoid muscle, points to the superior thyroid artery ; 3, lingual artery and its hyoid 

 branch ; 4, placed on the submaxillary gland at the place where the facial artery is 

 sunk in the gland, and again where the artery turns over the lower jaw ; 4', termination 

 of the facial artery by division into the angular and lateral nasal branches ; 5, sub- 

 mental branch ; 6, inferior labial branches ; 7, transverse facial branch of the superficial 

 temporal ; 8, superficial temporal, passing over the zygoma and distributed by 8', 8', its 

 anterior and posterior divisions on the surface of the cranium ; 9, occipital artery rising 

 upon the cranium ; 9', its distribution and anastomosis with the temporal and posterior 

 auricular arteries ; 10, outer part of the snbclaviau artery ; 11, superficial cervical, and 

 12, posterior scapular arteries; 13, suprascapular artery ; 14, acromio-thoracic branches 

 of the axillary artery. 



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