ascending palatine arteries

A form of ascending palatine artery — An inferior artery that arises from the facial artery and divides into two branches of which one supplies the soft palate and the palatine glands and the other supplies especially the tonsils and the eustachian tube.

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of ascending palatine artery
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