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occipital artery

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occipital artery [äk′sip·əd·əl ¦ärd·ə·rē]
(anatomy)
A branch of the external carotid which branches into the mastoid, auricular, sternocleidomastoid, and meningeal arteries.
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The origin of the feeder was close to the origins of the ascending pharyngeal artery and the occipital artery (figure 1, A).
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The occipital artery, the posterior branch of the middle meningeal artery, and the transmastoid branch of the occipital artery flowed in a retrograde fashion into ectatic cortical veins with drainage into Labbe's vein and then Trolard's vein (Figure 3).
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