Inferior thyroid artery

Inferior thyroid artery
Thyrocervical trunk and its branches, including inferior thyroid artery. Superficial dissection of the right side of the neck.
Human parathyroid glands
Details
Source	Thyrocervical trunk
Vein	Inferior thyroid veins
Supplies	Thyroid gland
Identifiers
Latin	arteria thyreoidea inferior
TA98	A12.2.08.043
TA2	4591
FMA	10662
Anatomical terminology [edit on Wikidata]

The inferior thyroid artery is an artery in the neck. It arises from the thyrocervical trunk and passes upward, in front of the vertebral artery and longus colli muscle. It then turns medially behind the carotid sheath and its contents, and also behind the sympathetic trunk, the middle cervical ganglion resting upon the vessel.

Reaching the lower border of the thyroid gland it divides into two branches, which supply the postero-inferior parts of the gland, and anastomose with the superior thyroid artery, and with the corresponding artery of the opposite side.