occipital artery

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0001613

The occipital artery arises opposite the facial artery, its path is below the posterior belly of digastric to the occipital region. This artery supplies blood to the back of the scalp and sterno-mastoid muscles. Other muscles it supplies are deep muscles in the back and neck. [WP,unvetted]. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occipital_artery ]

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SCTID:244219005
EMAPA:37672 (MA:th)
UMLS:C0226117 (ncithesaurus:Occipital_Artery)
MA:0002009
FMA:49586
Wikipedia:Occipital_artery
NCIT:C33194

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uberon_slim, human_reference_atlas

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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7b/Gray508.png

has related synonym

arteria occipitalis

has obo namespace

uberon

UBERON:0001613

prefLabel

Occipital artery

present in taxon

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_9606

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Equivalent to:

artery and supplies some scalp and supplies some muscle of neck and branching part of some external carotid artery

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