An artery that branches from the lingual artery and supplies the soft palate, tonsils, epiglottis, palatoglossal arch, and adjacent mucous membrane. The dorsal lingual artery runs along the upper border of the hyoid bone and anastomises with its fellow of the opposite side. [ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK554513/ ]
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- head blood vessel
- artery
- connecting branch of some lingual artery
- part of some face
- vessel supplies blood to some epiglottis and vessel supplies blood to some soft palate and vessel supplies blood to some palatine tonsil and vessel supplies blood to some palatoglossal arch
- part of some system