Inferior laryngeal artery

The inferior laryngeal artery ("lower larynx artery") - referred to in animal anatomy as the caudal laryngeal artery - is an artery of the neck. It springs from the lower thyroid artery and attracts, accompanied by the recurrent laryngeal nerve in the trachea upwards to the back of the larynx ( larynx ). There it is covered by the inferior constrictor pharyngis muscle .

The inferior laryngeal artery supplies the part of the larynx below the glottis with arterial blood.

See also

• Superior laryngeal artery

Individual evidence

1. ↑ FCAT - Federative Committee on Anatomical Terminology: Terminologia Anatomica. Thieme, Stuttgart et al. 1998, ISBN 3-13-114361-4 .

literature

• Theodor H. Schiebler (Ed.): Anatomie. Histology, history of development, macroscopic and microscopic anatomy, topography. Taking into account the item catalog. 9th, completely revised edition. Springer, Heidelberg 2005, ISBN 3-540-21966-8 .