Malar artery

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The arteria malaris (from Latin mala ' cheek ' ) is a pair of arteries in the head of animals. In carnivores and horses it arises from the infraorbital artery and in cloven-hoofed animals from the maxillary artery . It pulls in the eye socket to the corner of the eye on the nose side. There it divides into several branches:

  • the arteria palpebrae tertiae supplies the nictitating membrane
  • the inferior medial palpebral artery supplies the lower eyelid
  • the superior medial palpebral artery supplies the upper eyelid

In pigs, the malar artery discharges the frontal artery and supplies the forehead and the bridge of the nose with it. In ruminants, too, it supplies the posterior part of the nasal bridge with the arteria lateralis nasi (sheep) or arteria lateralis nasi caudalis (cattle and goats).

literature

  • Karl-Heinz Habermehl, Bernd Vollmerhaus, Helmut Wilkens, Helmut Waibl: Textbook of the anatomy of domestic animals . Volume 3: Circulatory System, Skin and Skin Organs . Georg Thieme Verlag, 2005, ISBN 978-3-8304-4164-9 , p. 120.