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Inferior tympanic artery

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Dorlands /Elsevier
  
a_61/12156448

FMA
  
49506

TA
  
A12.2.05.013

Inferior tympanic artery

Source
  
Ascending pharyngeal artery

Latin
  
Arteria tympanica inferior

The inferior tympanic artery is a small branch of the ascending pharyngeal artery.

It is a small branch which passes through a minute foramen in the petrous portion of the temporal bone which is called tympanic canaliculus or inferior tympanic canaliculus, in company with the tympanic branch of the glossopharyngeal nerve, to supply the medial wall of the tympanic cavity and anastomose with the other tympanic arteries.

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