See Also: sternocleidomastoid branch of occipital artery(medicine)
locus ferrugineus(medicine)
sternocleidomastoid branch of superior thyroid artery(medicine)
Occipital branch(medicine)
mastoid branch of occipital artery(medicine)
meningeal branch of occipital artery(medicine)
descending branch of occipital artery(medicine)
auricular branch of occipital artery(medicine)
calcarine branch of medial occipital artery(medicine)
parietal branch of medial occipital artery(medicine)

sternocleidomastoid branch of occipital artery (medicine) and locus ferrugineus (medicine)


sternocleidomastoid branch of occipital artery (medicine)


sternocleidomastoid branch of occipital artery
<anatomy, artery> Branches of occipital artery to sternocleidomastoid muscle. One often hooks around hypoglossal nerve. It may arise as an independent branch of the external carotid, in which case it may be referred to as the sternomastoid artery.

Synonym: rami sternocleidomastoidei arteriae occipitalis.


locus ferrugineus (medicine)


locus ferrugineus -->
locus ceruleus


A shallow depression, of a blue colour in the fresh brain, lying laterally in the most rostral portion of the rhomboidal fossa near the cerebral aqueduct; it lies near the lateral wall of the fourth ventricle and consists of about 20,000 melanin-pigmented neuronal cell bodies whose norepinephrine-containing axons have a remarkably wide distribution in the cerebellum as well as in the hypothalamus and cerebral cortex.

Synonym: substantia ferruginea, locus cinereus, locus ferrugineus.