Supratrochlear artery

Supratrochlear artery
The ophthalmic artery and its branches (supratrochlear artery labeled at center top)
The arteries of the face and scalp (supratrochlear artery labeled at upper right, above eye)
Details
Latin	Arteria supratrochlearis, arteria frontalis
Source	Ophthalmic artery
Supplies	Forehead: integument, muscles, and pericranium
Identifiers
Dorlands /Elsevier	a_61/12156189
TA
TH	{{#property:P1694}}
TE	{{#property:P1693}}
FMA	{{#property:P1402}}
Anatomical terminology [[[d:|edit on Wikidata]]]

The supratrochlear artery (or frontal artery), one of the terminal branches of the ophthalmic artery, branches off where the ophthalmic artery travels posterior to the trochlea.

File:Supratrochlear artery forehead.png

Supratrochlear (Frontal) vein visible through the forehead

Course

It leaves the orbit at its medial angle by piercing the orbital septum with the supratrochlear nerve, and, ascending on the forehead, supplies the integument, muscles, and pericranium, anastomosing with the supraorbital artery, and with the artery of the opposite side.

References

This article incorporates text in the public domain from the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)

External links

• Photo of model at Waynesburg College circulation/frontalartery
• Diagram at stchas.edu
• http://www.dartmouth.edu/~humananatomy/figures/chapter_47/47-2.HTM