NOUN
- a branch of the internal carotid artery that supplies the eye and neighboring structures
How To Use ophthalmic artery In A Sentence
- LIP is one of the treatments to salvage vision in patients with incomplete ophthalmic artery occlusion if no contraindications for thrombolysis exist.
- The ophthalmic artery may be associated with the development of a branch of the lacrimal artery that passes through the sphenoidal fissure to anastomose with the middle meningeal artery.
- The middle part of the fossa presents, in front, the chiasmatic groove and tuberculum sellæ; the chiasmatic groove ends on either side at the optic foramen, which transmits the optic nerve and ophthalmic artery to the orbital cavity. II. Osteology. 5d. The Interior of the Skull
- Hint about this characteristic: the nutrient vessel of OCH does not come from the ophthalmic artery, ophthalmic vein or intracranial vessel.
- This branch enters the skull through the superior orbital fissure or a small foramen in the greater wing of the sphenoid to anastomose with the ophthalmic artery.
- This branch enters the skull through the superior orbital fissure or a small foramen in the greater wing of the sphenoid to anastomose with the ophthalmic artery.
- This surface is bounded behind by a ridge, which forms the anterior border of a narrow, transverse groove, the chiasmatic groove (optic groove), above and behind which lies the optic chiasma; the groove ends on either side in the optic foramen, which transmits the optic nerve and ophthalmic artery into the orbital cavity. II. Osteology. 5a. 5. The Sphenoid Bone
- The ophthalmic artery may have a separate foramen located between the optic foramen and the superior orbital fissure.