lingual artery

The floor of the mouth also receives its blood supply from the lingual artery.

The lingual artery is a good place to stop severe hemorrage from the tongue.

Lingual artery-(arise from anterior aspect)

The lingual artery arises from the external carotid between the superior thyroid artery and facial artery.

Beclard's anastomosis: or arcus raninus, An anastomosis between the right and the left end-branch of the deep lingual artery.

The lingual vein passes medial to the hyoglossus, and the lingual artery passes deep to the hyoglossus.

The dorsal lingual branches of lingual artery consist usually of two or three small branches which arise beneath the Hyoglossus.

Structures that are medial/superficial to the hyoglossus are the glossopharyngeal nerve (9th Cranial nerve), the stylohyoid ligament and the lingual artery & vein.

The tongue receives its blood supply primarily from the lingual artery, a branch of the external carotid artery and lingual veins which drain into internal jugular vein.

The lingual veins begin on the dorsum, sides, and under surface of the tongue, and, passing backward along the course of the lingual artery, end in the internal jugular vein.

The vascular supply to the hypopharynx includes the Superior Thyroid Artery, the Lingual Artery and the Ascending Pharyngeal Artery.

The deep lingual artery (or ranine artery) is the terminal portion of the lingual artery after the sublingual artery is given off.

The suprahyoid branch of the lingual artery runs along the upper border of the hyoid bone, supplying oxygenated blood to the muscles attached to it and anastomosing with its fellow of the opposite side.

The facial artery arises in the carotid triangle from the external carotid artery a little above the lingual artery and, sheltered by the ramus of the mandible, passes obliquely up beneath the digastric and stylohyoid muscles, over which it arches to enter a groove on the posterior surface of the submandibular gland.