Uberon definition : The ascending cervical artery is a small branch which arises from the inferior thyroid
artery as that vessel is passing behind the carotid sheath; it runs up on the anterior
tubercles of the transverse processes of the cervical vertebrC& in the interval between
the Scalenus anterior and Longus capitis. To the muscles of the neck it gives twigs
which anastomose with branches of the vertebral, and it sends one or two spinal branches
into the vertebral canal through the intervertebral foramina to be distributed to
the medulla spinalis and its membranes, and to the bodies of the vertebrC&, in the
same manner as the spinal branches from the vertebral. It anastomoses with the ascending
pharyngeal and occipital arteries.;
The ascending cervical artery is a small branch which arises from the inferior thyroid
artery as that vessel is passing behind the carotid sheath; it runs up on the anterior
tubercles of the transverse processes of the cervical vertebrC& in the interval between
the Scalenus anterior and Longus capitis. To the muscles of the neck it gives twigs
which anastomose with branches of the vertebral, and it sends one or two spinal branches
into the vertebral canal through the intervertebral foramina to be distributed to
the medulla spinalis and its membranes, and to the bodies of the vertebrC&, in the
same manner as the spinal branches from the vertebral. It anastomoses with the ascending
pharyngeal and occipital arteries.