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External carotid artery
The artery that supplies most of the face and jaws. It rises behind the ramus of the mandible and ends by dividing into the maxillary and superficial temporal arteries.
Function
Its branches, including the facial and maxillary arteries, carry blood to the teeth, jaws, face and scalp.
Source: StatPearls: Carotid Arteries
Related structures
Maxillary artery · Facial artery
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