maxillary artery in dogs
An artery that supplies deep structures of the face. It comes just out behind the neck of the mandible. [WP,unvetted]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.
What the maxillary artery is
An artery that supplies deep structures of the face. It comes just out behind the neck of the mandible. [WP,unvetted]. The atlas records it as a artery at the organ scale in the dog.
Where the maxillary artery is
It sits within the cardiovascular system. Only the system is known. The position shown carries almost no spatial information.
What the maxillary artery connects to
The atlas records 13 typed relationships for it, across 3 kinds of connection. a kind of artery.
Supply and innervation
This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the maxillary artery. Only a minority of structures carry those edges here, so an empty answer means nothing has been recorded — not that there is nothing to record.
Also called
Also recorded as arteria maxillaris and internal maxillary artery. Searching any of those names reaches this page.
Source
Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001616, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.
- A kind of: artery.
- Connected to: external carotid artery.
- Develops from: arterial system, cardiovascular system, chordate pharynx, circulatory system, digestive system and digestive tract, and 5 more.
Questions
Where is the maxillary artery?
It sits within the cardiovascular system. Only the system is known. The position shown carries almost no spatial information.
What does the maxillary artery connect to?
A kind of: artery.
Is the maxillary artery the same in other species?
This page describes the dog. The human record of the same structure sits beside it on /compare, over one shared model rather than two atlases built separately.