PATHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -5 Function. The facial artery supplies the palatine tonsils, soft palate, pterygoid, mylohyoid, and digastric muscles, the submandibular gland, and all of the face.

Detailed explanation-2: -Your carotid arteries are blood vessels that supply blood to your brain, face and neck. You have two common carotid arteries, one on each side of your neck: Left common carotid artery. Right common carotid artery.

Detailed explanation-3: -The arterial supply comes from the external carotid artery branches-the lingual artery, facial artery, and the maxillary artery.

Detailed explanation-4: -Two arteries form the facial nerve arterial arcade: 1) the petrous branch of the middle meningeal artery (MMA), and 2) the stylomastoid branch of the posterior auricular or occipital artery (Fig 1). Branches of these 2 arteries anastomose adjacent to the geniculate ganglion.