occipital artery in dogs

The occipital artery arises opposite the facial artery, its path is below the posterior belly of digastric to the occipital region. This artery supplies blood to the back of the scalp and sterno-mastoid muscles. Other muscles it supplies are deep muscles in the back and neck. [WP,unvetted]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the occipital artery is

The occipital artery arises opposite the facial artery, its path is below the posterior belly of digastric to the occipital region. This artery supplies blood to the back of the scalp and sterno-mastoid muscles. Other muscles it supplies are deep muscles in the back and neck. [WP,unvetted]. The atlas records it as a artery at the organ scale in the dog.

Where the occipital artery is

It sits within the cardiovascular system. Only the system is known. The position shown carries almost no spatial information.

What the occipital artery connects to

The atlas records 3 typed relationships for it, across 2 kinds of connection. a kind of artery.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the occipital 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 occipitalis. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001613, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• A kind of: artery.
• Supplies: muscle of neck and scalp.

Questions

Where is the occipital artery?

It sits within the cardiovascular system. Only the system is known. The position shown carries almost no spatial information.

What does the occipital artery connect to?

A kind of: artery.

Is the occipital 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.