lingual artery

The lingual artery arises from the external carotid between the superior thyroid and facial artery[WP]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the lingual artery is

The lingual artery arises from the external carotid between the superior thyroid and facial artery[WP]. The atlas records it as a artery at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the lingual artery is

It sits within the cardiovascular, digestive and sensory systems. Not positioned individually. Drawn inside the structure this dataset says contains it — the containment is asserted, the exact spot within it is not.

What the lingual artery connects to

The atlas records 6 typed relationships for it, across 4 kinds of connection. part of material anatomical entity and tongue.

Supply and innervation

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

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001610, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

Part of: material anatomical entity and tongue.
A kind of: anatomical structure and branch of external carotid artery.
Supplies: tongue.
subtype: deep lingual artery.

Questions

Where is the lingual artery?

What does the lingual artery connect to?

Part of: material anatomical entity and tongue.

Is the lingual 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.