Artery Mental

**Mental artery** – (lat. a. mentales) - the terminal branch of the external carotid artery.

**Definition.** *An artery that goes to the base of the chin and supplies blood to some branches of the lower jaw.*

Po in Latin *A. the mental is called a. mentalis* (syn. arteria infrahyoidea), and sometimes in both languages, due to confusion of terms, it is also called a. submentalis. Both of these errors do not comply with the rules of Latin terminology, which provide for the assignment of the names of arteries, as well as tributaries, to their source and the delivery of the term either to the area of ​​“exit” or “inflow” or to the composition of the blood they deliver. Due to the fact that the term “Mr. **hypochondriac**” during the previous clinic was mistakenly used to designate the **mental nerve,** there were projects to call it by the names of its terminal branches the cerebral and laryngeal-thyroid arteries; instead of what was proposed at the time **V. G. Waldeyer or M.P. Kopechinsky “name” “lingual artery**” more often use the terms “lingual artery”, “medial artery of the tongue”. In a military field situation, the name facial artery was introduced. It is still used in textbooks and lexicons, although they do not adhere to the rule of the same “consonance” or sequence of naming the arteries and branches of the right and left sides. For the same reasons, it is inappropriate here too. The name hypoglossal artery is now replaced by the old acquaintance with it under its Latin name; otherwise losing