It is a branch of the middle meningeal artery.

In approximately half of subjects it branches into an accessory meningeal artery.

The middle meningeal artery runs in a groove on the inside of the cranium.

The anterior branch of the middle meningeal artery runs beneath the pterion.

An injured middle meningeal artery is the cause of an epidural hematoma.

The majority of bleeds originate from meningeal arteries, particularly in the temporal region.

Many of these injuries are associated with lacerations of the middle meningeal artery.

It is commonly associated with damage to the middle meningeal artery, often resulting from a skull fracture.

On entering the cranium, the middle meningeal artery gives off the following branches:

It enters the skull through the foramen spinosum with the middle meningeal artery.

It may result from laceration of an artery, most commonly the middle meningeal artery.

That's directly over the middle meningeal artery."

The pterion region which overlies the middle meningeal artery is relatively weak and prone to injury.

Its inner surface is marked by a deep groove, sometimes a canal, for the anterior divisions of the middle meningeal artery.

"Trauma that tears the meningeal artery causes a bleed between the lining of the brain and the skull.

Very rarely the ophthalmic artery may arise as a branch of the middle meningeal artery.

Torn middle meningeal artery.

Its sympathetic postganglionic fibers consists of a filament from the plexus surrounding the middle meningeal artery.

Meningeal arteries can refer to:

This is especially true when the middle meningeal artery arises from the ophthalmic artery (the foramen would be near to empty in that case).

The lacrimal artery is sometimes derived from one of the anterior branches of the middle meningeal artery.

Consequently, a traumatic blow to the pterion may rupture the middle meningeal artery causing an epidural haematoma.

Bleeding from the veins associated with the middle meningeal artery is often quite brisk but can generally be controlled with oxidized cellulose packing.

With watershed strokes, platelet aggregates block the small meningeal arteries in watershed regions creating a microembolism.

It anastomoses with the superficial petrosal branch of the middle meningeal artery by a twig which enters the hiatus canalis facialis.