middle meningeal artery

It is a branch of the middle meningeal artery.

The middle meningeal artery runs in a groove on the inside of the cranium.

The anterior branch of the middle meningeal artery runs beneath the pterion.

An injured middle meningeal artery is the cause of an epidural hematoma.

Many of these injuries are associated with lacerations of the middle meningeal artery.

It is commonly associated with damage to the middle meningeal artery, often resulting from a skull fracture.

On entering the cranium, the middle meningeal artery gives off the following branches:

It enters the skull through the foramen spinosum with the middle meningeal artery.

It may result from laceration of an artery, most commonly the middle meningeal artery.

That's directly over the middle meningeal artery."

The pterion region which overlies the middle meningeal artery is relatively weak and prone to injury.

Its inner surface is marked by a deep groove, sometimes a canal, for the anterior divisions of the middle meningeal artery.

Very rarely the ophthalmic artery may arise as a branch of the middle meningeal artery.

Torn middle meningeal artery.

Its sympathetic postganglionic fibers consists of a filament from the plexus surrounding the middle meningeal artery.

This is especially true when the middle meningeal artery arises from the ophthalmic artery (the foramen would be near to empty in that case).

The lacrimal artery is sometimes derived from one of the anterior branches of the middle meningeal artery.

Consequently, a traumatic blow to the pterion may rupture the middle meningeal artery causing an epidural haematoma.

Bleeding from the veins associated with the middle meningeal artery is often quite brisk but can generally be controlled with oxidized cellulose packing.

It anastomoses with the superficial petrosal branch of the middle meningeal artery by a twig which enters the hiatus canalis facialis.

It accompanies the middle meningeal artery and vein as they enter the cranium through the foramen spinosum and supplies the dura mater.

Reflecting this fact, Terminologia Anatomica lists entries for both "accessory branch of middle meningeal artery" and "pterygomeningeal artery".

It permits the passage of the recurrent meningeal nerve (from CN V3, into the endocranium) and the middle meningeal artery:

In rare cases, early division of the middle meningeal artery into a posterior and anterior division may result in a duplication of the foramen spinosum.

Accessory meningeal artery (small meningeal or parvidural branch, sometimes derived from the middle meningeal artery)