page_title: Anterior tympanic artery
hierarchical_section_title: Anterior tympanic artery
caption_attribution_description: English: Plan of branches of maxillary artery Italiano: Partizioni dell'Arteria mascellare
context_page_description: The anterior tympanic artery is a small artery in the head that supplies the middle ear.
  It usually arises as a branch of the first part of the maxillary artery. It passes upward behind the temporomandibular articulation, enters the tympanic cavity through the petrotympanic fissure, and ramifies upon the tympanic membrane, forming a vascular circle around the membrane with the stylomastoid branch of the posterior auricular, and anastomosing with the artery of the pterygoid canal and with the caroticotympanic branch from the internal carotid.
context_section_description: The anterior tympanic artery (glaserian artery) is a small artery in the head that supplies the middle ear.
  It usually arises as a branch of the first part of the maxillary artery. It passes upward behind the temporomandibular articulation, enters the tympanic cavity through the petrotympanic fissure, and ramifies upon the tympanic membrane, forming a vascular circle around the membrane with the stylomastoid branch of the posterior auricular, and anastomosing with the artery of the pterygoid canal and with the caroticotympanic branch from the internal carotid.
caption: Branches of maxillary artery 
  (anterior tympanic artery at upper left)
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