external carotid artery

A terminal branch of the left or right common carotid artery which supplies oxygenated blood to to the throat, neck glands, tongue, face, mouth, ear, scalp and dura mater of the meninges[MP]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the external carotid artery is

A terminal branch of the left or right common carotid artery which supplies oxygenated blood to to the throat, neck glands, tongue, face, mouth, ear, scalp and dura mater of the meninges[MP]. The atlas records it as a artery at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the external carotid artery is

It sits within the cardiovascular system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What the external carotid artery connects to

The atlas records 6 typed relationships for it, across 6 kinds of connection. part of common carotid artery plus branches.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the external carotid 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 external carotid and arteria carotis externa. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001070, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

Questions

Where is the external carotid artery?

It sits within the cardiovascular system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What does the external carotid artery connect to?

Part of: common carotid artery plus branches.

Is the external carotid 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.