maxillary artery

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 human body.

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: blood vasculature, body proper, cardiovascular system, chordate pharynx, 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?

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.