mental artery

The mental branch of inferior alveolar artery escapes with the nerve at the mental foramen, supplies the chin, and anastomoses with the submental and inferior labial arteries. [WP,unvetted]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the mental artery is

The mental branch of inferior alveolar artery escapes with the nerve at the mental foramen, supplies the chin, and anastomoses with the submental and inferior labial arteries. [WP,unvetted]. The atlas records it as a artery at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the mental artery is

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

What the mental artery connects to

The atlas records 3 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 mental 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 mental branch of inferior alveolar artery and ramus mentalis (arteria alveolaris inferior). Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001617, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• A kind of: artery.
• Supplies: chin.
• transports: mental foramen.

Questions

Where is the mental artery?

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

What does the mental artery connect to?

A kind of: artery.

Is the mental 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.