Artery Sleznaya

**The lacrimal artery or the lacrimal artery** is a paired short, rather wide, approximately one finger diameter, artery on the face at the base of the nasal septum at its medial border and above the nasal turbinates.

*Arterial branches* *go to* the organs of the nose: to the middle cranial fossa - to the midbrain and hypothalamus, to the olfactory bulbs and the olfactory nerve; through the pterygopalatine foramen - into the cranial cavity, into the pterygoid plexus, from which individual branches *supply* the teeth of the upper jaw. At the edge of the body of the upper jaw *arteries* turn down and in the middle the top