buccal artery

The buccal artery (buccinator artery) is small and runs obliquely forward, between the Pterygoideus internus and the insertion of the Temporalis, to the outer surface of the Buccinator, to which it is distributed, anastomosing with branches of the external maxillary and with the infraorbital. [WP,unvetted]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the buccal artery is

The buccal artery (buccinator artery) is small and runs obliquely forward, between the Pterygoideus internus and the insertion of the Temporalis, to the outer surface of the Buccinator, to which it is distributed, anastomosing with branches of the external maxillary and with the infraorbital. [WP,unvetted]. The atlas records it as a artery at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the buccal artery is

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

What the buccal 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 buccal 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 buccalis and arteria buccinatoria. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001618, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• A kind of: artery.
• Supplies: buccinator muscle and cheek.

Questions

Where is the buccal artery?

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

What does the buccal artery connect to?

A kind of: artery.

Is the buccal artery the same in other species?

Leumas holds the same relationship vocabulary for every species it carries, so where another dataset records this structure you can put the two side by side on /compare.