Terminal branches of internal carotid aery are all except
The internal carotid aery begins in the neck as one of the terminal branches of the common carotid aery at the level of the upper border of the thyroid cailage. course and branches of internal carotid aery - Its course is divided into the following four pas. 1) Cervical pa: In the neck it lies within the carotid sheath. This pa gives no branches. 2) Petrous pa: Within the petrous pa of the temporal bone, in the carotid canal. 3)Cavernous pa: Within the cavernous sinus. This pa of the aery gives off: Cavernous branches to the trigeminal ganglion; and (b) the superior and inferior hypophyseal branches to the hypophysis cerebri. 4)cerebral pa : This pa lies at the base of the brain after emerging from the cavernous sinus. It gives off the following aeries: (a) Ophthalmic; (b) anterior cerebral; (c) middle cerebral; (d) posterior communicating; and (e) anterior choroidal. this pa is considered to be terminal pa of internal carotid aery. Ref : B D Chaurasia's Human Anatomy , seventh edition, volume 3 , pg. no., 209 ( fig. no. 12.16 )
Anterior cerebral aery
Middle cerebral aery
Posterior communicating sery
Cavernous aery
Head and neck