Medial frontobasal artery at a glance
- What it is
- A cortical branch of the anterior cerebral artery supplying the medial orbital surface of the frontal lobe.
- Location
- It arises from the postcommunicating (A2) part of the anterior cerebral artery, usually as its first cortical branch below the genu of the corpus callosum, and runs forward on the orbital surface of the frontal lobe.
- Function
- It supplies the medial orbitofrontal cortex and the gyrus rectus.
- Body system
- Cardiovascular · paired (left and right)
- FMA ID
- FMA50343 (Foundational Model of Anatomy)
Structures next to the medial frontobasal artery
The nearest named structures in the 3D model, measured from the centre of each part:
- Ophthalmic artery · cardiovascular
- Anterior ethmoidal nerve · nervous
- Frontal nerve · nervous
- Supratrochlear nerve · nervous
- Optic nerve · nervous
- Superior branch of oculomotor nerve · nervous
- Superior rectus · muscular
- Short ciliary nerve · nervous
- Anterior cerebral artery · cardiovascular
- Superior oblique · muscular
References
- Foundational Model of Anatomy: Medial frontobasal artery (FMA50343). EMBL-EBI Ontology Lookup Service.
- OpenStax. Anatomy and Physiology 2e, §20.1 Structure and Function of Blood Vessels. Rice University, 2022.
- Mitsuhashi N. et al. (2009). BodyParts3D: 3D structure database for anatomical concepts. Nucleic Acids Research 37, D782–D785. Data © The Database Center for Life Science, CC BY 4.0.
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