Glandular branches of the superior thyroid artery
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The glandular branches of the superior thyroid artery are generally two in number;
- one, the larger, supplies principally the anterior surface; on the isthmus of the gland it anastomoses with the corresponding artery of the opposite side
- a second branch descends on the posterior surface of the gland and anastomoses with the inferior thyroid arteryInferior thyroid arteryThe inferior thyroid artery arrises from the thyrocervical trunk and passes upward, in front of the vertebral artery and Longus colli, then turns medially behind the carotid sheath and its contents, and also behind the sympathetic trunk, the middle cervical ganglion resting upon the...