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superior cerebellar artery

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The superior cerebellar artery (SCA) arises near the termination of the basilar artery. It passes lateralward, immediately below the oculomotor nerve, which separates it from the posterior cerebral artery, winds around the cerebral peduncle, close to the trochlear nerve, and, arriving at the upper surface of the cerebellum, divides into branches which ramify in the pia mater and anastomose with those of the inferior cerebellar arteries. Several branches are given to the pineal body, the anterior medullary velum, and the tela chorioidea of the third ventricle. [WP,unvetted]. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superior_cerebellar_artery ]

Term info

database cross reference
Subsets

uberon_slim, human_reference_atlas

depicted by

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e1/CerebellumArteries.jpg

has related synonym

arteria superior cerebelli

id

UBERON:0001635

prefLabel

Superior cerebellar artery

present in taxon

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